Scratch Data
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Scratch Data (scratchdata.com) was a New York City analytics startup founded in 2021 by software engineer Jay Goel as a one-person team and backed by Y Combinator's Summer 2021 batch. Its pitch was analytics for builders: an API that let developers record and query billions of datapoints. It raised about $500,000 in a convertible note from investors including Y Combinator, competing with data platforms such as Reltio.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded and YC S21
Jay Goel founds Scratch Data in New York City; the company joins Y Combinator's Summer 2021 batch and raises about $500,000 in a convertible note.
- Status goes inactive
Y Combinator lists Scratch Data as Inactive; founder Jay Goel moves on to new roles (later at Hadrius).
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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