Stacksi YC Application

Winter 2021Acquired

Stacksi went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Winter 2021
Industry: B2BSecurity
Team size: 4
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2021

Founders

Emre Murray MangirFounder
Joseph MetzingerFounder

What Stacksi does

Stacksi helps companies automate the process of answering enterprise security questionnaires so they can close deals faster and save their best engineers’ time for more strategic projects. Salespeople, CTOs, and CEOs of fast-growing enterprise startups can upload security questionnaires into our system. If the company already has written security policies, they can upload those documents, too. From there, Stacksi parses their documents, identifies gaps in their security policies vs. standards, and helps them establish a successful security program. Ultimately, we will help them 1) automate completion of security questionnaires, 2) quickly get through enterprise security audits and 3) improve their security posture.

Stacksi's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Stacksi, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Stacksi

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Automated Answers to Security Questionnaires

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

Stacksi automates the process of answering enterprise security questionnaires. Customers upload their security questionnaires and any existing security policies into our system. We parse these documents, identify gaps against standards, and help establish or improve their security program. We help companies finish these questionnaires faster to close deals and save engineering time.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in Los Angeles, CA, and the company is based there with a remote team.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're based in LA where both founders live. The team is remote, so we stay flexible but LA anchors us geographically.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Stacksi YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Stacksi's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Stacksi would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.