Hyper Online YC Application

Summer 2020Inactive

Hyper Online went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2020 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 2020
Industry: ConsumerSocial
Team size: 7
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2020

Founders

Aaron NgFounder/CEO

What Hyper Online does

Hyper is an early stage startup with a mission to build the largest avatar platform in the world. We're starting by targeting consumer use-cases, and our first one is VTubing: an emerging type of content where creators use computer-vision and motion capture to pilot 3D avatars as content creation tools. Avatar content (also known as VTubing) has broken into the multi-billion-view-per-month category on places like Twitch and YouTube. This has given a new group of people the power to tell stories and present themselves on their own terms online while also protecting their IRL identities. Our goal is to build the largest platform tools for this new movement. We're now the #1 US VTubing app on iOS. We also recently announced our seed funding: we're backed by Amazon, Two Sigma Ventures, MakersFund, YCombinator, and other great investors. App Store: TechCrunch:

Hyper Online's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Hyper Online, Summer 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Hyper Online

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Social avatar platform for VTubers

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

We build a platform that lets creators pilot 3D avatars for content creation using computer vision and motion capture. Our first product is targeted at VTubers, helping them create real-time avatar-based streams and videos that protect their real identities and expand self-expression online.

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

We live in San Francisco and would base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team is concentrated and where the social creativity and AR/AI ecosystems we rely on thrive. It's the natural place for our product and user base to grow.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Hyper Online YC application?

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