Nimbus YC Application

Winter 2021Inactive

Nimbus 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: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 3
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2021

Founders

Kevin Lin

What Nimbus does

Our mission is to enable FANG-like observability for every organization in the world. We're starting with an optimization engine to reduce datadog costs by an order of magnitude without manual effort from developers.

Nimbus's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Nimbus

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Reduces Datadog costs by over 60% with no manual effort

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

We're building an optimization engine that analyzes Datadog usage and automatically tunes it to cut costs by more than 60%. It requires no manual work from developers, making complex observability affordable for companies without large ops teams.

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

We live in Seattle, WA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We all currently live in Seattle, and our early network and customers are here. Staying local lets us move faster in product development and customer feedback.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Nimbus YC application?

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