Matterport YC Application

Winter 2012Public

Matterport went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2012 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: Winter 2012
Industry: ConsumerVirtual and Augmented Reality
Team size: 201
Status: Public
Launched: 2011

Founders

David GausebeckFounder/CTO

What Matterport does

Matterport is an immersive media technology company that is shaking up the 3D / VR world. Our team has built the first end-to-end system for creating, modifying, distributing, and navigating immersive 3D and virtual reality (VR) versions of real-world spaces on web and mobile devices. Matterport offers the world's most inexpensive and simplest way to capture 3D spaces. Our products include: - Matterport Pro Camera for capturing real spaces in 3D. It collects accurate visual and spatial data to map entire areas in minutes and is all about automation and ease of use. - The Matterport Cloud for processing and hosting 3D models - Matterport Portal, our system for viewing, editing, and managing models; collaborating with colleagues; and sharing models with others - Matterport 3D Showcase, a browser-based 3D media player, which allows anyone to view 3D models in their browser with no additional software - Matterport Core VR: All Spaces can be converted to VR and experienced on Samsung Gear VR or Google Cardboard (in beta), with additional device support coming soon. Matterport 3D media solutions power industries from real estate (residential, multi-family and commercial) and travel and hospitality (hotels, vacation rentals, and venue booking), to business listings, architecture, engineering and construction, news and entertainment, and everything in between. We’re growing fast. If you’re passionate about solving cutting-edge problems in computer vision and hardware design and creating order-of-magnitude improvements in the ability to easily create and share 3D models of real world spaces, we want to talk to you. See open positions at matterport.com/jobs. Try Matterport for yourself at matterport.com/try.

Matterport's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Matterport, Winter 2012 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Matterport

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Turn physical objects and environments into 3D models in seconds

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

We make a system for creating and sharing 3D digital models of real-world spaces. It includes the Matterport Pro Camera to scan spaces quickly, cloud services that process and host the 3D data, and software that lets users view, edit, and share immersive 3D models on web and mobile devices. Our product also supports VR playback on existing devices.

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

We live in Sunnyvale, California, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Sunnyvale is where we've built our team and product so far, and it's central to the hardware and computer vision talent we need. Staying here lets us keep moving quickly and maintain momentum.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Matterport YC application?

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