Neptune.io YC Application

Summer 2014Inactive

Neptune.io went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2014 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: Summer 2014
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 11
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2014

Founders

Kiran GolluCo-founder/CEO
Satish TalluriFounder

What Neptune.io does

Neptune is an observability startup that offers one-stop incident enrichment and automation platform for IT Operations and DevOps teams. It is a fact of life that servers and applications go down causing IT outages. Today most of the IT incident response is manual, tedious and lengthy resulting in more downtime and losses for businesses. At the same it's very painful for a DevOps engineer to wake up at midnight and on weekends to deal with server and application alerts. Enter Neptune, which lets a DevOps engineer automate his incident response steps --Troubleshooting + Resolution + Documentation, so that he/she can fix the incidents in minutes instead of hours. So it's a win-win deal: For businesses downtime is minimized, and for DevOps engineers they need not worry about a deluge of alerts and midnight wake up calls. Big companies like Amazon, Facebook etc built sophisticated incident response tools to achieve high availability and resiliency. We have architected and built one such tool for AWS. Now Neptune is making one such tool available for everyone. Give it a try at

Neptune.io's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Neptune.io, Summer 2014 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Neptune.io

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Self-healing platform for fixing server alerts

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

We built an incident enrichment and automation platform that helps DevOps teams automatically troubleshoot, resolve, and document server and application alerts. Our product reduces downtime by minimizing manual intervention, especially during off-hours, so engineers spend minutes fixing issues instead of hours.

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

We currently live in San Mateo, CA, and would base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Mateo is where our team is located, close to major cloud customers and developers. Staying here keeps us connected to our initial users and the broader Bay Area infrastructure community.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Neptune.io YC application?

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