Arpio YC Application

Winter 2021Active

Arpio went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 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: Winter 2021
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 7
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Doug NeumannFounder
Shaw TerwilligerFounder

What Arpio does

Arpio is a SaaS that eliminates downtime for AWS applications by making it easy to recover from any outage in just a few minutes.

Arpio's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Arpio, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Arpio

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Recover from any outage in 10 minutes or less

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

We have built a SaaS platform that eliminates downtime for AWS applications by automating recovery from any outage in minutes. Arpio detects failures, manages recovery workflows, and restores normal operation without manual troubleshooting. Our users are engineering teams responsible for critical cloud workloads who need near-instant recovery to avoid costly downtime.

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

We live in Durham, NC and are remote. After YC, the company will remain based in Durham, NC with a distributed team.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Durham offers a strong tech talent pool and an affordable cost of living. We already have roots here and a small team, so it makes sense to keep the company based here while remaining remote-friendly to attract talent.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Arpio YC application?

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