Waterplan YC Application

Summer 2021Active

Waterplan 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: B2B
Team size: 20
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Jose Ignacio GalindoFounder
Nicolas WertheimerFounder

What Waterplan does

Waterplan is the world’s leading climate platform to measure, respond, report, and monitor companies increasingly changing climate water risk. Customers include multinational companies like Coca-Cola, Diageo, Colgate & Ab InBev. The platform combines companies’ operational data with local water satellite imagery to provide a continuously updated financial assessment of water risk. Based on that, it offers tailored mitigation and adaptation opportunities, from conventional infrastructure to nature-based solutions. The company was founded by a team of tech and water 2nd-time entrepreneurs with two exits and almost ten years of experience working for Fortune 500 companies in water projects. Early investors include YCombinator, Giant Ventures, David Helgason, Leonardo DiCaprio, Richard Branson's family, Manu Ginobili, among others waterplan.com

Waterplan's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Waterplan

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Water risk mitigation for industrial sites

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

We build a platform that combines operational data from industrial companies with local water satellite imagery to give them a continuous, financial assessment of their water risk. On top of that, we suggest specific actions tailored to their situation, including infrastructure upgrades and nature-based solutions.

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

We are based in San Francisco, CA, with remote team members. After YC, we will remain operating out of San Francisco while keeping a distributed team.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose San Francisco because it's where the core team lives and where we can access key customers in industrial and climate-sensitive sectors, plus talent for our tech and water expertise.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Waterplan YC application?

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