Traces YC Application

Summer 2019Active

Traces went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2019 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 2019
Industry: B2BSecurity
Team size: 10
Status: Active
Launched: 2019

Founders

Kostyantyn ShyshFounder
Veronika YurchukFounder

What Traces does

We analyze thousands of video streams to find and track people without facial recognition. Our tech is available as an API and has multiple use cases. Unique people counting, forensic people search, falsa alarm filtering and many more.

Traces's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Traces, Summer 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Traces

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Transform your video monitoring with AI

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

We build an AI-powered computer vision platform that analyzes thousands of video streams to detect and track people without using facial recognition. Our API offers unique people counting, forensic people search, false alarm filtering, and more for security and surveillance applications.

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

We live and work between San Francisco and Mountain View, California. After YC, we plan to keep the company based in the Bay Area to stay close to our user base and tech ecosystem.

Explain your decision regarding location.

The Bay Area gives us access to technology talent and potential customers in security and AI fields. Being local to Silicon Valley helps with partnerships and recruiting.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Traces YC application?

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