Beam YC Application

Winter 2022Active

Beam went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 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 2022
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Eli MernitFounder
Luke LombardiFounder

What Beam does

Beam is cloud platform for AI inference, sandboxes, and agents.

Beam's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Beam, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Beam

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-Native Cloud Platform

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

We are building a cloud platform specifically for AI inference, sandboxes, and agents. Our product lets developers deploy and manage AI-powered workloads without building complex infrastructure themselves. It's designed for teams working with AI models who need a simple, scalable place to run them in production and development.

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

We are based in New York, NY, and would remain here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is where we live and have our team. It's a good location for the engineering and business side of Beam, close to other startups and AI communities. We don't see a need to relocate to Silicon Valley since remote collaboration and cloud usage make location less relevant.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Beam YC application?

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