FloydHub

FloydHub YC Application

Winter 2017Inactive

FloydHub went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2017 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 2017
Industry
B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size
4
Status
Inactive
Launched
2016

Founders

  • Sai Prashanth Soundararaj
    Sai Prashanth SoundararajFounder/CEO
  • Naren Thiagarajan
    Naren ThiagarajanFounder

What FloydHub does

FloydHub is a Platform-as-a-Service for training and deploying your DL models in the cloud. Start running your first project in < 30 sec! Floyd takes care of the grunt work so you can focus on the core of your problem.

FloydHub's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

FloydHub, Winter 2017 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

  1. Founders2
  2. Company7
  3. Progress7
  4. Idea4
  5. Equity3
  6. Curious2
  7. Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

FloydHub

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

ML Platform for developing, training and deploying ML models

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

We built FloydHub, a platform-as-a-service for training and deploying deep learning models in the cloud. It abstracts away infrastructure setup and grunt work so ML practitioners can focus on their experiments and deployment. You can start a project and get a training job running in under 30 seconds.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, and after YC the company would remain based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco puts us close to potential customers, ML practitioners, and the broader startup ecosystem; it's the best place to build and scale a ML engineering platform like FloydHub.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real FloydHub YC application?

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

What YC batch was FloydHub in?

FloydHub was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2017 batch.

Who founded FloydHub?

FloydHub was founded by Sai Prashanth Soundararaj, Naren Thiagarajan.

What does FloydHub do?

ML Platform for developing, training and deploying ML models

How do I read the full reconstructed application?

Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of FloydHub's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.

More YC startups like FloydHub