Dockup YC Application

Winter 2019Active

Dockup went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2019 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 2019
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Yuva KumarFounder
Emil SomanFounder

What Dockup does

Dockup gives on-demand environments for engineering teams so they can merge pull requests with confidence. It works like CircleCI, but allows you to manually test and see each code changes in action with your entire tech stack without having to mock any of your services.

Dockup's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Dockup, Winter 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Dockup

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

On demand ephemeral environments for tests

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

We provide engineering teams with on-demand environments that spin up instantly to run both manual and automated tests against their full tech stack. Unlike CI tools like CircleCI that only run automated tests, Dockup lets developers and testers deploy a real version of their app with all services live, so they can manually verify changes without mocks or spinning up complicated local setups. This reduces bugs slipping into production and speeds up PR reviews.

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

We split our time between Bengaluru, India and Mountain View, CA. After YC, we plan to base the company in both locations to stay close to key engineering talent and US customers.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose to live and work across these two locations to combine access to top engineering talent in India with proximity to customer and investor networks in Silicon Valley. Both places are important to growing Dockup.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Dockup YC application?

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