Hyperbeam YC Application

Winter 2022Active

Hyperbeam 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: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Philip ScottFounder
Ambareesh BalajiFounder

What Hyperbeam does

Emebedding third-party apps and websites can often be a nightmare due to incompatible platforms, security issues, and poor UX. Adding multiplayer functionality to these embeds makes this problem exponentially more difficult. Enter Hyperbeam - an API that lets you embed virtual computers anywhere, including web, mobile, VR, and even VSCode. You can then open any third-party website or application, synchronize audio and video flawlessly among multiple participants, and add multi-user control with just a few lines of code. Uses cases and customer segments include remote learning, virtual offices, online casinos, productivity, watch parties and more. We are three technical founders from the University of Waterloo, and worked as engineers at Facebook, Yahoo, and Lyft. Our technology is battle-tested - we currently stream over 1.25M hours of video per month across every continent.

Hyperbeam's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Hyperbeam

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

API for shared embeddable web browsers

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

We've built an API that lets developers embed virtual computers anywhere - web, mobile, VR, even VSCode - and stream any third-party website or application with synchronized audio/video and multi-user controls. This solves the problem of embedding multiplayer web apps, which is currently painful due to platform incompatibilities, security, and poor UX.

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

We live in Waterloo, ON, Canada, and work remotely. After YC, we plan to operate remotely as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Waterloo has a strong engineering talent pool and is where we met as founders. Being remote lets us attract people globally while keeping our base here.

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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Hyperbeam YC application?

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