Citus Data YC Application

Summer 2011Acquired

Citus Data went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2011 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 2011
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 45
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2012

Founders

Sumedh PathakFounder/Engineer

What Citus Data does

The amount of time businesses spend on their databases is altogether too much time. Citus is fixing this problem. Citus is worry-free Postgres. Built to scale out, Citus is an extension to Postgres that is available as open source, as enterprise software that can be run on-prem or on any cloud, and as a fully-managed database as a service. Whether you have a multi-tenant application that needs to scale out, or you need performance for your real-time analytics customers, with Citus, you can focus on your app - not your database. Founded in 2011, Citus Data is venture backed by Khosla Ventures and Data Collective. Citus is a Y Combinator alumnus and has offices in San Francisco’s SoMa district and Istanbul, Turkey. At Citus, we make it simple to scale out Postgres. Citus Data online: Documentation: docs.citusdata.com GitHub: github.com/citusdata/citus

Citus Data's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Citus Data, Summer 2011 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Citus Data

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Real-time. Big data. PostgreSQL

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

We build an extension to PostgreSQL that lets you scale out your database across many servers. Citus transforms Postgres into a distributed database, enabling real-time analytics and multi-tenant apps to perform at scale without needing to switch to a different system or rewrite queries.

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

Our team is spread across San Francisco, Istanbul, and Amsterdam. After YC, the company would be based primarily in San Francisco to tap into the tech ecosystem here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We started partly in Istanbul and Europe because of the founders' origins but moved to San Francisco to be closer to customers, investors, and the broader open source and startup community.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Citus Data YC application?

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