Strac YC Application

Winter 2022Active

Strac went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 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 2022
Industry: B2BSecurity
Team size: 8
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Aatish MandelechaFounder

What Strac does

Strac is an agentless Data Discovery (aka DSPM - Data Security Posture Management), Data Classification & DLP (Data Leak Prevention) that automatically discovers, classifies and remediates sensitive data (alert, label, redact, mask, block, delete). Strac protects SaaS, Cloud, Gen AI, Browsers, On-Prem and Endpoints like O365, Slack, GDrive, AWS, Salesforce, ChatGPT, Jira, Mac, Zendesk, Azure, On-Prem (On-Prem, MS SQL SAP) and 40+ integrations. Strac protects enterprise companies like UiPath, Databricks, thredUP, B Capital, Crypto (dot) com!

Strac's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Strac, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Strac

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Data discovery and DLP for SaaS and cloud

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

We built Strac, an agentless platform that discovers, classifies, and protects sensitive data across SaaS apps, cloud environments, and endpoints. It alerts, labels, redacts, masks, blocks, or deletes sensitive data automatically. We support integrations like O365, Slack, GDrive, AWS, Salesforce, ChatGPT, and more. Enterprise security teams use us to get visibility and control over their data risks without deploying agents.

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

We live in Seattle, WA and plan to keep Strac based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Seattle has strong engineering talent and is where our founding team and early employees are located. It enables us to build deeply without relocation disruptions.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Strac YC application?

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