Tesseral YC Application

Winter 2024Inactive

Tesseral went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2024 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 2024
Industry: B2B
Team size: 5
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2024

Founders

Ned O'LearyFounder
Ulysse CarionFounder

What Tesseral does

Tesseral is the open source platform for managing identity and access in business software. It provides enterprise-grade capabilities, including SAML single sign-on, SCIM provisioning, role-based access control, managed API keys, and audit logs, implemented in just a few lines of code. Tesseral unifies access management for employees, customers, services, and AI agents, giving organizations the flexibility to adapt to any deployment model and the authority to enforce security policies with precision. You can learn more by reading our docs at or by checking out our GitHub at

Tesseral's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Tesseral, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Tesseral

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Open source identity management for business software

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

We're building Tesseral, an open source platform that manages identity and access in business software. It supports SAML SSO, SCIM provisioning, role-based access control, API key management, and audit logging - all integrated with just a few lines of code. Our platform works across employees, customers, services, and even AI agents to give organizations control over security policies and deployment methods.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, CA. The company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has a strong engineering talent pool and direct access to a wide network of enterprise customers and partners interested in identity security.

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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Tesseral YC application?

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