Rescale YC Application

Winter 2012Active

Rescale went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2012 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 2012
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 250
Status: Active
Launched: 2011

Founders

Joris PoortFounder/CEO
Adam McKenzieFounder/CTO

What Rescale does

Rescale is a cloud-based platform for computational engineering and R&D, that empowers engineers and researchers to accelerate discovery, testing, and optimization. We democratize access to the latest technologies that drive greater efficiency and competitiveness, including high performance computing, simulation, modeling, AI/ML, and digital twins. The majority of industry leaders worldwide use Rescale as the backbone of R&D, connecting the digital thread of new product innovation to develop products that enrich humanity, from autonomous vehicles to drug discovery. Rescale customers include 7 of the top 10 automotive companies and 3 of the top 6 life science companies. Rescale’s full-stack, open platform automates systems, data, and workflows into a user-centric experience, so customers can focus on innovation. Choose from 1000+ pre-installed applications for multiphysics simulation and AI/ML-assisted design exploration, including commercial, open-source, and custom software. We offer the largest global network of hyperscale and specialty cloud infrastructure to leverage the latest CPU, GPU, and other specialized architectures. Rescale is enterprise-ready to enable any size organization to achieve their digital transformation goals - with unified management that gives IT teams full visibility and control of hybrid-cloud operations. Rescale’s intelligent automation gives customers flexibility to improve performance and reduce costs of computing, while our enhanced security and compliance ensures industry-leading standards are met from end to end. Getting started is simple, flexible, and free to try. Our team of experts is ready to help you achieve your most ambitious engineering goals - schedule a demo today. Join us and help us build products that change the world:

Rescale's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Rescale

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

High Performance Computing Built for the Cloud

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

We built a cloud platform that lets engineers and researchers run high performance computing simulations and R&D workloads remotely. It connects users to hundreds of pre-installed engineering applications across global cloud infrastructure. The product automates infrastructure management, workload scheduling, and workflow integration so customers can focus on innovation rather than IT complexity.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has a large tech and enterprise software ecosystem, which is essential for building enterprise-ready cloud infrastructure and hiring the right team. It also puts us close to many potential customers in innovation-heavy industries.

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 Rescale YC application?

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