CyberFend YC-Bewerbung

Winter 2015Acquired

CyberFend durchlief Y Combinator im Winter 2015-Batch als ein B2B-Unternehmen. Unten: Was das Unternehmen tut, wer es gegründet hat und seine Bewerbung bei YC, Frage für Frage im echten YC-Formular rekonstruiert.

YC-Batch: Winter 2015
Branche: B2BSecurity
Teamgröße: 2
Status: Acquired
Gestartet: 2014

Gründer

Sreenath KurupatiFounder

Was CyberFend tut

Cyberfend offers a robust security solution to protect your web and mobile applications from sophisticated attacks and fraudulent activity. Cyberfend's solution detects account take-over, payment fraud and the use of stolen credentials. All of these problems are relevant to every consumer facing web and mobile product/service. Cyberfend’s solution uses a new security paradigm - human cognitive science coupled with advanced machine learning. The result is a robust detection system with near zero false positives and false negatives. Today Cyberfend protects nearly a billion login and payment transactions every month for many large e-commerce, web and payment customers. Cyberfend's product is at the intersection of almost every single cutting edge technology today: a) Our core product employs heavy machine learning b) On the backed, our product is cloud based and deals with enormous scale (customers are directing significant portions of their traffic to us) c) On the front end we need to deal with both web and mobile (IOS, SDK) challenges.Please visit us at: Cyberfend is backed by Y Combinator, SV Angel and A Capital. Cyberfend was acquired by Akamai Technologies in December 2016.

CyberFends YC-Bewerbung, rekonstruiert

Y Combinator Bewerbung

CyberFend, Winter 2015 Batch. Die echten Fragen des Antrags, beantwortet aus öffentlichen Daten.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

CyberFend

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Real-time web and mobile fraud detection

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

We are building a security solution that protects consumer-facing web and mobile applications from sophisticated attacks like account take-overs, payment fraud, and stolen credential use. Our product combines human cognitive science with machine learning to detect fraud with near-zero false positives and negatives. It runs in the cloud and supports web and mobile platforms, handling enormous scale for many large e-commerce and payment customers.

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

We live in Santa Clara, CA, and would base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in Santa Clara because we are close to many of our customers and partners in the Bay Area, and it's where we have the right talent and infrastructure for building our cloud security platform.

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Häufig gestellte Fragen

Ist das die echte YC-Bewerbung von CyberFend?

Nein. Y Combinator hält eingereichte Bewerbungen privat. Dies ist eine Rekonstruktion: die echten Fragen des YC-Formulars, beantwortet aus den öffentlichen Daten von CyberFend (Veröffentlichungsnotizen, Gründerhintergründe, Produktbeschreibung). Sie zeigt, wie sich ein Unternehmen wie CyberFend bei YC präsentieren würde, nicht den Text, den sie eingereicht haben.

In welchem YC-Batch war CyberFend?

CyberFend war Teil des Y Combinator Winter 2015-Batches.

Wer hat CyberFend gegründet?

CyberFend wurde von Sreenath Kurupati gegründet.

Was macht CyberFend?

Cyberfend delivers robust, real-time web and mobile security by…

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