Cloudthread YC Application

Summer 2021Acquired

Cloudthread went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2021 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 2021
Industry: B2BAnalytics
Team size: 8
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2021

Founders

Ilia SemenovFounder

What Cloudthread does

Cloudthread is an analytics platform that helps engineering teams build cost efficiently in the cloud. We were behind Lyft's internal cloud cost management system and now we use that deep expertise to help organizations save hours of engineering time, reduce cloud bills, and prevent costly re-architectures.

Cloudthread's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Cloudthread, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Cloudthread

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Eliminate cloud waste, track savings, engage engineers

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

We build an analytics platform that helps engineering teams understand and reduce their cloud costs. Our platform attributes cloud spend to engineering efforts, tracks the savings from optimization, and helps teams avoid expensive re-architectures. It grew out of the system we built inside Lyft and is now a standalone product for other companies.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team lives and where we have access to early customers and cloud-focused engineering culture. It makes sense to stay here during and after YC to maintain these connections.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Cloudthread YC application?

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