Trigger.dev YC Application
Trigger.dev went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2023 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 2023
- Industry
- B2BEngineering, Product and Design
- Team size
- 9
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2022
Founders
Matt AitkenFounder
Eric AllamFounder
Dan PatelFounder
James RitchieFounder
What Trigger.dev does
Trigger.dev is the open source platform for building AI agents and workflows in TypeScript. Long-running tasks with retries, queues, full observability, and elastic scaling. Previously, the founders built JSON Hero, an open source JSON viewer that is currently used by more than 35k developers a month. Eric was CTO of Code School, an early code learning platform that was acquired in 2015. Matt created two iPad apps that won Apple’s App of the Year.
Trigger.dev's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Trigger.dev, Winter 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Trigger.dev
Build and deploy fully-managed AI agents and workflows
Trigger.dev is an open source platform for building AI agents and workflows in TypeScript. It handles retries, queues, long-running tasks, full observability, and elastic scaling so developers can automate complex processes reliably without building infrastructure from scratch.
We live in London, England, and plan to base the company here after YC as well.
We are based in London where the team already lives and works. Staying here makes sense because we've built our network locally and want to continue growing from a strong base rather than relocating.
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 Trigger.dev YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Trigger.dev's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Trigger.dev would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Trigger.dev in?
Trigger.dev was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2023 batch.
Who founded Trigger.dev?
Trigger.dev was founded by Matt Aitken, Eric Allam, Dan Patel, James Ritchie.
What does Trigger.dev do?
Build and deploy fully‑managed AI agents and workflows
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Trigger.dev's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
