Ploomber YC Application

Winter 2022Inactive

Ploomber went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 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 2022
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 7
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2022

Founders

Eduardo BlancasFounder
Ido MichaelFounder

What Ploomber does

We are building a cloud platform to help companies deploy and scale AI applications.

Ploomber's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Ploomber, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Ploomber

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Heroku for AI

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

We are building a cloud platform that helps companies deploy and scale AI applications. Our platform streamlines the process of launching AI models into production and scaling them without the usual operational headaches. It's for engineering, product, and design teams struggling with putting machine learning models into reliable, usable workflows.

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

We live in New York, NY, and would keep the company based here after YC, while also supporting remote work for the team.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose New York because that's where we are now and where our team is rooted. The AI and developer community here is growing, and it's important to keep our core close but remain flexible with remote contributors.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Ploomber YC application?

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