Cloudkick YC Application

Winter 2009Acquired

Cloudkick went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2009 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 2009
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 11
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2012

Founders

Logan WelliverFounder

What Cloudkick does

Cloudkick is system to manage cloud servers, such as the Rackspace Cloud and Amazon's EC2. Cloudkick provides an easy to use monitoring/alerting solution to support your production infrastructure on the cloud. Cloudkick also gives you a window into your cloud deployment by providing detailed graphs on the health of your servers, and tools to categorize and keep information about what each server is doing. Cloudkick's mission is to make cloud servers easy to use, where ever the customer needs them.

Cloudkick's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Cloudkick, Winter 2009 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Cloudkick

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Manage and monitor cloud servers

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

We are building a system to manage cloud servers like Rackspace Cloud and Amazon EC2. Our product helps infrastructure teams monitor their cloud servers with easy-to-understand alerts and detailed health graphs. It also organizes information about server roles and status so managing cloud infrastructure is simpler and less error-prone.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA and intend to base the company in San Francisco after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team and customers are. It's a hub for startups and cloud infrastructure, providing access to talent and early users.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Cloudkick YC application?

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