Heroic Labs YC Application

Summer 2015Active

Heroic Labs went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2015 batch as a Consumer 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 2015
Industry: ConsumerGaming
Team size: 21
Status: Active
Launched: 2015

Founders

Chris MolozianFounder/CEO
Mo FirouzFounder/COO
Andrei MihuFounder/CTO

What Heroic Labs does

At Heroic Labs, we proudly present our comprehensive suite of products, meticulously designed to address the multifaceted demands of the contemporary gaming industry. Our cornerstone offerings - Nakama, Hiro, Satori, and Heroic Cloud - comprise the Heroic Game Stack, an integrated platform delivering unparalleled performance and flexibility. Heroic Labs is a company by a team of engineers with backgrounds in distributed databases, big data analytics and high-volume mobile application APIs, and game development. We want to make it effortless for any game studio to build beautiful social and multiplayer games which work at massive scale.

Heroic Labs's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Heroic Labs, Summer 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Heroic Labs

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Social Infrastructure for Games

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

We build the Heroic Game Stack, a set of products - Nakama, Hiro, Satori, and Heroic Cloud - that provide game developers with the backend infrastructure needed to build social and multiplayer games that scale. Our tools handle real-time multiplayer, social features, and scalable cloud services so game studios don't reinvent the wheel or struggle with building and maintaining complex backends.

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

We live in London, England, United Kingdom, and the company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose to stay in London because that's where the three of us are based and where we have our network. Our engineering backgrounds and early user base are here, so it makes sense to build from this hub.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Heroic Labs YC application?

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