Hydra YC Application

Winter 2022Acquired

Hydra went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 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 2022
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 6
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2022

Founders

Joseph SciarrinoFounder

What Hydra does

Hydra is a real-time analytics database management system for Postgres. We seperate compute from storage to offer software engineers serverless analytics with autoscale, write isolation, automatic caching, and more. Shipping scalable projects on time series and event data has never been easier. Hydra is available for local development, cloud, and bare metal deployment.

Hydra's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Hydra, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Hydra

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Serverless analytics on Postgres

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

We built a real-time analytics database system that separates compute from storage on Postgres. Our product offers software teams serverless analytics with autoscaling, write isolation, and automatic caching, making it easier to build scalable projects around time series and event data.

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

We live in San Francisco and remote but plan to base the company in San Francisco after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we have the strongest technical network and access to users building infrastructure and developer tools. It's also where the ecosystem for data engineering and Postgres development is concentrated.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Hydra YC application?

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