Per Vices YC Application

Winter 2012Active

Per Vices went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2012 batch as a Industrials 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 2012
Industry: Industrials
Team size: 11
Status: Active
Launched: 2011

Founders

Victor WollesenFounder
Brandon MalatestFounder/COO

What Per Vices does

Per Vices builds the highest performing Software Defined Radios for mission critical applications for industries that can't live without them. Our products are modular, easy to use, provide the best possible performance, and replace a number complex sub-systems and components. Customers developing wireless applications use our products because they dramatically lower integration and development complexity, total cost of ownership, and time to market. Our proprietary, industry leading, technology provides the best performance and maintains an efficient abstraction layer that allows customers to easily incorporate our product into their application.

Per Vices's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Per Vices, Winter 2012 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Per Vices

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Building Mission Critical Software Defined Radio

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

We build software defined radios designed for mission critical use in industries that depend on reliable wireless applications. Our products replace complex traditional radio subsystems with a modular, easy-to-use radio platform that offers high performance and simplifies integration. Customers use our radios to reduce development complexity, lower costs, and speed time to market for wireless products.

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

We live in Toronto, ON, Canada, and the company would be based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Our team is based in Toronto where we have the hardware and engineering resources set up. Staying here lets us continue working closely as a small team specialized in hardware and software radio systems.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Per Vices YC application?

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