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Escape

YC Winter 2023 Active

Offensive security for the teams that are 100x outnumbered

https://escape.tech ↗
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Outside your stated focus; easy to skip unless something exceptional.

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How close the company’s idea is to your thesis statement

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Overlap with sectors you care about

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Your thesis: “We back exceptional technical founders building AI-first products and infrastructure, deploying $100K checks within 24 hours.”

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YC company pages list founders in page JSON, but we only scrape a capped slice of the directory. Pull this slug with .venv/bin/python run_sourcing.py --sources yc_founders --slugs escape then re-ingest. Open on YC ↗

Activity & evidence

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