Nestybox YC Application

Summer 2020Acquired

Nestybox went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2020 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 2020
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 2
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2020

Founders

Cesar TalledoFounder
Rodny MolinaFounder (acquired)

What Nestybox does

Nestybox creates software that enables Linux containers to act like virtual machines. This increases the use cases for containers and gives enterprises a less expensive and more flexible alternative to virtual machines in many scenarios. Our first product is a "container runtime", the software that creates the containers. It's called "Sysbox" and integrates with the popular Docker and Kubernetes engines, enabling these tools to deploy containers that act like virtual machines. This technology provides software engineers with an alternative to VMs, one that easier to use, much more efficiency, and easily migrated across clouds. Hacker News Launch:

Nestybox's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Nestybox

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Enables Linux containers to act like VMs

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

We built Sysbox, a container runtime that makes Linux containers behave like virtual machines. It integrates with Docker and Kubernetes so engineers can run containers with VM-like isolation and flexibility, but with better performance and portability across clouds.

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

We live and work in San Jose, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose San Jose because it's where we are currently located and it positions us close to our industry and potential customers in the infrastructure space.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Nestybox YC application?

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