Telivy

Telivy YC Application

Summer 2021Acquired

Telivy 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
6
Status
Acquired
Launched
2021

Founders

  • Naren Sathiya
    Naren SathiyaFounder

What Telivy does

Telivy helps small and medium businesses purchase the best cyber insurance coverage. Our proprietary ML-based risk platform assesses insurability gaps, offers remediation plans and brokers insurance quotes from A+ rated carriers.

Telivy's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Telivy, 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

Telivy

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Automate cyber security risk assessments

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

We are building a machine learning-driven platform that automates cyber security risk assessments for small and medium businesses. It identifies gaps in insurability, recommends specific remediation steps, and brokers insurance coverage quotes from A+ rated carriers to help customers purchase the best cyber insurance.

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

We live in San Francisco and will base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is the center of cybersecurity startups and insurance technology. Being here gives us direct access to partners, talent, and early users in our market sector.

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 Telivy YC application?

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

What YC batch was Telivy in?

Telivy was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2021 batch.

Who founded Telivy?

Telivy was founded by Naren Sathiya.

What does Telivy do?

Automate your cyber security risk assessments

How do I read the full reconstructed application?

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

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