Tarsal

Tarsal YC Application

Summer 2021Acquired

Tarsal went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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
Summer 2021
Industry
B2BSecurity
Team size
10
Status
Acquired
Launched
2023

Founders

  • Sunny Rekhi
    Sunny RekhiFounder

What Tarsal does

Tarsal is a data pipeline custom built for security teams. As security data grows 25% year over year, security teams desperately need access to best-in-class data infrastructure. Tarsal bridges the gap between the modern data stack and security teams, pioneering the modern security data stack.

Tarsal's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Tarsal, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

  1. Founders2
  2. Company7
  3. Progress7
  4. Idea4
  5. Equity3
  6. Curious2
  7. Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Tarsal

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Data pipeline for your security data lake

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

We built a data pipeline specifically for security teams to connect their growing security data sources into a central data lake. Our product moves security data reliably and efficiently so analysts can query it with modern data tools. It solves the problem of raw security data being fragmented and hard to standardize at scale.

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

We live in New York, San Francisco, and remote. Post-YC, we would base the company mainly out of New York and remote.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Security teams and modern data infrastructure are spread across tech hubs and remote. We stay distributed to access diverse talent and customers but keep a strong presence in New York where much of our team is.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Tarsal YC application?

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

What YC batch was Tarsal in?

Tarsal was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2021 batch.

Who founded Tarsal?

Tarsal was founded by Sunny Rekhi.

What does Tarsal do?

Data pipeline for your security data lake.

How do I read the full reconstructed application?

Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Tarsal's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.

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