Clustrix YC Application

Winter 2006Acquired

Clustrix went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2006 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 2006
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 51
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2012

Founders

Sergei TsarevFounder/CTO / Vice President Engineering

What Clustrix does

Clustrix provides the leading scale-out relational database engineered for the cloud or data center. ClustrixDB is a drop-in replacement for MySQL and an ideal solution for high-transaction, high-value workloads typically found in businesses such as ad tech, e-commerce, gaming, and large web and mobile businesses. Our customers use ClustrixDB for critical business applications that support massive transactional volume. ClustrixDB delivers more than twenty-five trillion transactions per month for customers including AOL, Nielsen, Match, MakeMyTrip, Photobox, Rakuten, and Symantec. Headquartered in San Francisco, Clustrix is funded by HighBar Partners, Sequoia Capital, U.S. Venture Partners, ATA Ventures, and Y Combinator. ClustrixDB is available in software that runs on commodity hardware and on any cloud. Visit to learn more. Follow @Clustrix on Twitter and "like" us on Facebook! #BetterSQL

Clustrix's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Clustrix, Winter 2006 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Clustrix

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Scale-out relational database for high-transaction apps

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

We are building ClustrixDB, a distributed relational database compatible with MySQL that scales horizontally without sacrificing transactional guarantees. It targets workloads with massive transaction volumes like ad tech, e-commerce, and gaming where traditional databases can't keep up.

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

We live and operate in San Francisco, and the company is based here now and will remain here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we can connect with early enterprise customers and top engineers. It's the best place to hire and build a technical company focused on cloud and data infrastructure.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Clustrix YC application?

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