Okteto YC Application

Winter 2019Active

Okteto went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2019 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 2019
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 30
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Ramiro BerrellezaFounder
Pablo Chico de GuzmanFounder/CTO
Ramon LamanaFounder

What Okteto does

At Okteto, we are working hard at creating the next-generation development experience for teams of all sizes. Have you ever seen how long it takes a developer to set up everything they need before working on a feature? We are fixing that. We want developers to focus on building value for their teams instead of wasting time setting up local environments or trying to debug "production only" issues.

Okteto's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Okteto, Winter 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Okteto

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Cloud Development Environments with one click

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

We build Okteto, a platform that lets developers spin up cloud development environments on Kubernetes with a single command. It eliminates the long setup times and environment mismatches developers face locally. Instead of managing local dependencies or fighting configuration drift, devs run code directly in Kubernetes replicas of production, speeding up development and debugging production-only issues.

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

We are distributed with team members in San Francisco, Denver, Madrid, Buenos Aires, and remote. After YC, we'd base the company primarily in San Francisco to tap into the startup ecosystem and investor community.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We want to stay close to investors and partners in the Bay Area while keeping our global team distributed. Our tool targets developer teams globally, so remote collaboration is natural, but YC's support and connections happen mostly in San Francisco.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Okteto YC application?

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