Paperspace YC Application

Winter 2015Acquired

Paperspace went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2015 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 2015
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 50
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2014

Founders

Dillon ErbFounder/CEO
Daniel KobranFounder

What Paperspace does

Paperspace is a cloud computing company creating simple and scalable accelerated computing applications. Our goal is to allow individuals and professional teams to seamlessly build and deploy computationally complex products and services. Paperspace is backed by leading investors including Y Combinator and Initialized Capital. Mission: Our mission is to make cloud computing more accessible through radical simplicity, community-driven technical resources, and straightforward pricing. -- To learn more about Paperspace, please visit or follow us on Twitter at: @hellopaperspace.

Paperspace's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Paperspace, Winter 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Paperspace

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Cloud platform for building and scaling AI

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

We built a cloud computing platform that makes it simple for engineers, data scientists, and designers to run GPU-accelerated workloads. Our product lowers the barriers to using complex compute infrastructure and helps teams build and deploy AI and machine learning applications at scale without managing hardware ourselves.

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

We live in Brooklyn, NY, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Brooklyn has a growing tech community and access to talent in AI and cloud computing. Staying here helps us focus on building our product without relocating challenges.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Paperspace YC application?

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