Redspread YC Application

Winter 2016Acquired

Redspread went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2016 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 2016
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2015

Founders

Mackenzie BurnettFounder/CEO
Dan GillespieFounder/CTO

What Redspread does

Redspread is a collaborative deployment tool for managing environments from development to production. It enables the deployment of Docker projects to a Kubernetes cluster using a single command. Redspread was launched in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Redspread's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Redspread, Winter 2016 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Redspread

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Version control for software environments

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

Redspread is a deployment tool that manages software environments from development to production. It lets developers deploy Docker projects to Kubernetes clusters with a single command, making environment management more reliable and collaborative.

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

We live in Mountain View, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Mountain View is where we live and where we built Redspread so far. It's a hub for developer tooling and infrastructure, so it's a natural fit for us and the product.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Redspread YC application?

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