Peer5 YC Application

Winter 2017Acquired

Peer5 went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2017 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 2017
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 11
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2016

Founders

Hadar WeissFounder/CEO
Shachar ZoharFounder/CTO

What Peer5 does

Peer5's P2P CDN improves content delivery for live and on demand video streams. As video streaming continues to become more mainstream and the streams themselves become HD and 4K, traditional CDNs struggle to deliver high quality viewing experiences. Many publishers try to keep up with peak demand by paying for more servers, many of which are almost never used and struggle with video playback. Not only is this expensive, but it's also inefficient, which is why at Peer5, we've created a P2P CDN to boost your video streaming capabilities. Our CDN works with your servers to ensure that as your viewership increases, your network gets stronger by offloading bandwidth to our peer network. On average, this has been shown to increase server capacity by 20x, offload 70% of bandwidth, increase viewing time by 30% and decrease instances of rebuffering by 40%. Our video streaming CDN uses emerging technologies, including HTML5 and WebRTC. They require no installation by end users and offer easy integration for content providers. We support many different streaming protocols, players and media servers.

Peer5's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Peer5, Winter 2017 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Peer5

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

P2P delivery network that enables high quality video streaming

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

We built a P2P CDN that works alongside traditional servers to improve video streaming. Our network offloads bandwidth to viewers' peers, increasing server capacity and reducing buffering without extra infrastructure. It supports various streaming protocols and requires no user installation.

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

We live and work in Palo Alto, CA. The company is based here and would remain in the Bay Area after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Palo Alto is where we live and work; it keeps us close to our network, engineers, and potential customers in tech and media.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Peer5 YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Peer5's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Peer5 would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.