$Infracost$

Infracost YC Application

Winter 2021Active

Infracost went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 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 2021
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 20
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Ali Khajeh-HosseiniFounder
Alistair ScottFounder

What Infracost does

Infracost shifts cloud costs left and makes FinOps proactive. It sits in the engineering workflow (CI/CD), and shows the cost impact of code changes (IaC) before the code is shipped to production. This catches costly mistakes before any money has been spent. It also checks to make sure all resources are tagged with your set tagging policy, and runs checks on the code against our FinOps policy packs, ensuring best practices are followed (e.g. using Graviton processors and storage lifecycle rules). This creates a cost-aware engineering culture.

Infracost's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Infracost, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Infracost

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Shift FinOps Left: Proactively Find & Fix Cloud Cost Issues

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

We build Infracost, a tool that integrates into engineering CI/CD workflows and shows the cloud cost impact of Infrastructure as Code changes before they ship. It catches costly cloud resource mistakes early by giving developers immediate feedback on cost and tagging issues, enforcing FinOps best practices.

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

We live and work remote but are incorporated in a single legal entity. After YC we plan to stay remote but could be flexible on location.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being remote lets us hire experienced engineers globally and stay lean. It fits our product focus on developer workflows and remote engineering teams.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Infracost YC application?

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