Archil YC Application

Fall 2024Active

Archil went through Y Combinator in the Fall 2024 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Fall 2024
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 11
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Hunter LeathFounder

What Archil does

Archil transforms S3 buckets into a 30x faster, unlimited, local disk. Archil enables AI, analytics, and serverless applications to instantly access massive data sets without waiting for data transfer. Researchers use Archil for shareable, local storage of data set and model versions that never runs out of capacity.

Archil's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Archil, Fall 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Archil

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

A high-performance file system connecting AI to data

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

We built a file system that turns S3 buckets into a local disk with 30x faster access. This lets AI models, analytics, and serverless apps access massive data instantly without waiting for transfers. Researchers use Archil to store and share versions of data sets and models with unlimited capacity.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and Archil will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our technical talent and customers intersect. Staying here keeps us close to early users and engineers with deep infrastructure experience.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Archil YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Archil's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Archil would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.