Whaly YC Application

Summer 2021Active

Whaly 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: B2BAnalytics
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Emilien SanchezFounder
Florian BuguetFounder
Pierre de PoulpiquetFounder

What Whaly does

Whaly helps data teams save time on maintenance and analysis building while making business users more autonomous on the analysis they want to improve their decision making. We do this by providing a self service data platform where both data and business teams can work together. We understood that most data teams were ending up being a bottleneck for the rest of the company and needed to give more autonomy to business teams to back their decisions with data. Emilien, Florian and Pierre were the minds behind the Data advertising platforms of the major media and e-commerce companies in France in their earlier position as Product Manager and head of Customer Success, giving them an edge on how to execute successfully a data project.

Whaly's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Whaly

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Self-service analytics platform

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

We build a self-service data platform where data teams can create and maintain analytics infrastructure, and business users can easily explore and analyze data without always relying on data teams. It reduces maintenance burdens for data teams and gives autonomy to business users to make data-driven decisions faster.

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

We live and work in Paris, Île-de-France, France. After YC, the company would remain based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We built the product here based on our backgrounds and the data ecosystem in Paris. We want to stay close to our network and existing infrastructure which helps us move faster.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Whaly YC application?

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