ZeroPath YC Application

Summer 2024Active

ZeroPath went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2024
Industry: B2BSecurity
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Dean ValentineFounder
Nathan HrncirikFounder
Raphael KargerFounder
Etienne LunettaFounder

What ZeroPath does

ZeroPath is a developer tool that autonomously detects, verifies, and submits fixes for vulnerabilities in your code. Engineers can use ZeroPath to find security problems that they might only otherwise catch in pentests or from bug bounty researchers.

ZeroPath's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

ZeroPath, Summer 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

ZeroPath

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Automatically find and fix software vulnerabilities

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

We built ZeroPath, a developer tool that autonomously detects vulnerabilities in code, verifies them to reduce false positives, and submits fixes automatically. It replaces manual pentests or depending on external bug bounty submissions by giving engineers real-time actionable security fixes during development.

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

We live in San Francisco and would base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the concentration of tech talent and security teams we need close by. Being here keeps us connected to early users and other developer tool companies we collaborate with.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real ZeroPath YC application?

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