Bitmovin YC Application

Summer 2015Active

Bitmovin went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2015 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: Summer 2015
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 145
Status: Active
Launched: 2015

Founders

Stefan LedererFounder/CEO
Christian TimmererFounder/CIO
Christopher MuellerFounder/CTO

What Bitmovin does

Bitmovin has been a first mover in almost every significant development in online video, from building and deploying the world’s first (and fastest) commercial adaptive streaming (MPEG-DASH/HLS) HTML5 Player, to being the first to achieve 100x realtime encoding speeds in the cloud. Bitmovin provides HEVC as well as VP9 live streaming with 60FPS and 4K resolution, and built the first containerized video encoding solution with Docker and Kubernetes. Bitmovin products are completely in-house developed, easy and fast to integrate and highly customizable. In combination with our great support, documentation and SLAs, this is a true enterprise offering. To find out more about Bitmovin’s video infrastructure solutions, or about any individual products, contact, or visit our website: bitmovin.com

Bitmovin's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Bitmovin, Summer 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Bitmovin

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Powers OTT online video providers with video developer tools

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

We build video infrastructure tools used by OTT providers to stream video online. Our products include the first commercial adaptive streaming HTML5 player and a cloud encoding service that delivers 100x realtime encoding speeds. We support advanced formats like HEVC and VP9, 4K resolution, and built containerized encoding solutions using Docker and Kubernetes.

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

We live in San Francisco now and would base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where the video technology ecosystem and many customers are, so it's the right place to build relationships and grow.

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.

See full application

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Bitmovin YC application?

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