Heroku YC Application
Heroku went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2008 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 2008
- Industry
- B2BInfrastructure
- Team size
- 300
- Status
- Acquired
- Launched
- 2012
Founders
Orion HenryFounder
James LindenbaumFounder
Adam WigginsFounder/CTO
What Heroku does
Heroku, a Salesforce company and industry pioneer in platform as a service (PaaS), enables developers to build and run applications entirely in the cloud. Heroku provides companies from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises with a faster and more effective way to create, deploy, and manage apps. Heroku operates the world’s largest PaaS, continuously delivering millions of apps with 6+ million container deployments, 60+ billion routing requests, and 10+ terabytes of application logs per day.
Heroku's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Heroku, Winter 2008 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Heroku
Enabling developers to build and run applications in the cloud
We are building a platform as a service that lets developers deploy, run, and manage their applications entirely in the cloud. It removes the complexity of infrastructure so developers can focus on building software, not managing servers.
We live in San Francisco, and we plan to keep the company based here after YC.
San Francisco is where we are already based and it's a key hub for developers and startups, which matches our early customers and network.
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 Heroku YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Heroku's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Heroku would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Heroku in?
Heroku was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2008 batch.
Who founded Heroku?
Heroku was founded by Orion Henry, James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins.
What does Heroku do?
Enabling developers to build and run applications in the cloud.
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Heroku's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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