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From Why Y Combinator In 2019–2020: The Accelerator’s Latest Startups Provide An Inside Look by Forbes

Eric Futoran, co-founder of Embrace, a performance monitoring & debugging platform for mobile apps, already had several years of experience at a thriving startup by the time he applied to YC. Futoran previously co-founded and helped build gaming startup Scopely into a leading games publisher responsible for top mobile games like Yahtzee, Walking Dead, and Wheel of Fortune. What drew Futoran and his team to the program was YC’s experience and the success of its portfolio specifically within the mobile analytics and developer tools spaces, with alumni including Heap (Series C), Parse (acquired by Facebook), Docker (Series E), Pagerduty (IPO), and others. The Embrace team also appreciated the structure and defined timing of the 3-month program, as it provided natural milestones to build toward.