- conflicts or gaps
- [{"name_collision": {"value": "Multiple unrelated companies named Scout exist (e.g., SF e-commerce/reselling Scout by Truman Sacks; Scoutzie YC S12; Docker Scout; others). This profile is the YC W20 Berkeley ML CI/CD company only.", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/scout", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/scout/__QM83eXZisMWybp9CX2hjdLr8HFh8qmyAVucf7VbUdD4", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/scoutzie"]}, "funding_amount_conflict": {"value": "Tracxn lists $125K total from YC; YC W20 batch standard investment was $150K for 7% (reduction to $125K began W21). Crunchbase profile not independently verified in this research.", "source_urls": ["https://tracxn.com/d/companies/scout/__NYZnjgLxGgPjt4_jCJLs5EDpneznFG5MyJd2GYAYknQ", "https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/yc-winter-2020-batch-stats", "https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/a-new-standard-deal", "https://www.ycdb.co/company/scout"]}, "employee_count_conflict": {"value": "YC lists team_size=1; Tracxn lists 1–10 employees as of 2024-07-01 (likely stale registry data for inactive company).", "source_urls": ["https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2020/scout.json", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/scout/__NYZnjgLxGgPjt4_jCJLs5EDpneznFG5MyJd2GYAYknQ"]}, "status_label_conflict": {"value": "YC and YC OSS API say Inactive; Tracxn says Deadpooled; YCDB page tagline includes 'Live' (appears outdated).", "source_urls": ["https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/scout", "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2020/scout.json", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/scout/__NYZnjgLxGgPjt4_jCJLs5EDpneznFG5MyJd2GYAYknQ", "https://www.ycdb.co/company/scout"]}, "wrong_founder_attribution": {"value": "Third-party directories (e.g., Zippia) attribute different founders to 'Scout' — not this YC W20 entity.", "source_urls": ["https://www.zippia.com/scout-careers-187365/", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/scout"]}, "shutdown_date_gap": {"value": "No primary source confirms exact shutdown date. GitHub activity ceased Apr 2020; founder LinkedIn lists Scout role ending Jan 2022.", "source_urls": ["https://github.com/scout-ml/docs", "https://www.linkedin.com/in/pranavsekhar"]}, "former_name_pivot_history": {"value": "YC OSS API lists prior working names Probe, Croft, CRONCH!, Cronch, Munchies before Scout — suggests early pivots; no public narrative found.", "source_urls": ["https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2020/scout.json"]}, "product_availability_gap": {"value": "scout.ml / app.scout.ml endpoints documented in 2020 README; current operational status unverified.", "source_urls": ["https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scout-ml/docs/master/README.md", "https://github.com/scout-ml/docs"]}, "no_demo_day_video": {"value": "YC OSS API flags demo_day_video_public=false and app_video_public=false.", "source_urls": ["https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2020/scout.json"]}}]
- source urls
- ["https://altss.com/companies/yc/scout", "https://github.com/scout-ml", "https://github.com/scout-ml/docs", "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scout-ml/docs/master/README.md", "https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/17/all-the-companies-from-y-combinators-w20-demo-day-part-iii-hardware-robots-ai-and-developer-tools/", "https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/26/yc-to-cut-the-size-of-its-investment-in-future-yc-startups/", "https://theorg.com/org/replicate-com/org-chart/pranav-sekhar", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/scout/__NYZnjgLxGgPjt4_jCJLs5EDpneznFG5MyJd2GYAYknQ", "https://tracxn.com/d/companies/scout/__QM83eXZisMWybp9CX2hjdLr8HFh8qmyAVucf7VbUdD4", "https://www.linkedin.com/in/pranavsekhar", "https://www.ycdb.co/company/scout", "https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/a-new-standard-deal", "https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/yc-winter-2020-batch-stats", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/scout", "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/scoutzie", "https://www.zippia.com/scout-careers-187365/", "https://yc-oss.github.io/api/batches/winter-2020/scout.json"]