ParaQuery YC Application
ParaQuery went through Y Combinator in the Spring 2025 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
- Spring 2025
- Industry
- B2BInfrastructure
- Team size
- 1
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2025
Founders
Win WangFounder
What ParaQuery does
ParaQuery is a fully-managed GPU-accelerated Spark solution providing double the performance at half the cost compared to solutions like Databricks and BigQuery. It is fully Spark-compatible, cloud agnostic, and has seamless integrations everywhere, all without vendor lock-in. ParaQuery makes it trivial to run large SQL and Spark workloads efficiently and serverlessly, without any data migrations.
ParaQuery's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
ParaQuery, Spring 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
ParaQuery
Managed GPU-accelerated Spark + SQL at 2x speed
We built a fully-managed GPU-accelerated Spark service that runs SQL and Spark workloads twice as fast and at half the cost of alternatives like Databricks and BigQuery. It's fully compatible with Spark, works across cloud providers, and lets users run heavy queries serverlessly without moving their data or locking into a vendor.
We live in New York, NY and plan to keep the company based here after YC, operating remotely as needed.
We picked New York because it's where Win Wang is based and where she has access to early users in enterprise analytics. Remote work enables flexibility, but this is home base.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real ParaQuery YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from ParaQuery's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like ParaQuery would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was ParaQuery in?
ParaQuery was part of the Y Combinator Spring 2025 batch.
Who founded ParaQuery?
ParaQuery was founded by Win Wang.
What does ParaQuery do?
Managed GPU-accelerated Spark + SQL at 2x speed and half the cost
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of ParaQuery's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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