Bitnami YC Application

Winter 2013Acquired

Bitnami went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2013 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 2013
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 75
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2012

Founders

Daniel LopezFounder/CEO
Erica BresciaFounder/COO

What Bitnami does

Packaged Applications for Any Platform. Bitnami has automated the ability to package, deploy and maintain applications, lowering the barrier to adoption for anyone to deploy and maintain a full spectrum of server applications, development stacks and infrastructure applications in virtually any format. Simply click to deploy any one of 120+ ready-to-run applications from the Bitnami Application Catalog or use Bitnami Stacksmith to package and migrate your custom in-house applications to the cloud. For more information, visit or follow us on Twitter (@Bitnami) and Facebook.

Bitnami's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Bitnami, Winter 2013 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Bitnami

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The App Store for Server Software

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

We package and automate deployment for server applications and development stacks in formats that run anywhere, letting anyone deploy and maintain full server apps without complex setup. Our Bitnami Application Catalog offers 120+ ready-to-run apps and Stacksmith lets companies package internal apps for the cloud.

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

We live in San Francisco, and the company is based here as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is the hub for developer and cloud infrastructure innovation. Our users and partners largely operate here, so being in this ecosystem keeps us close to our market and talent.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Bitnami YC application?

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