Scaphold.io YC Application

Winter 2017Acquired

Scaphold.io 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: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 2
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2016

Founders

Michael ParisFounder/CEO
Vince NingFounder

What Scaphold.io does

Scaphold is the world's most powerful GraphQL as a service platform. The platform will provide a number of services including push notifications, analytics, file storage, custom code, multiple environments, and more to allow developers to build mobile, web, and IOT applications. Our innovative use of GraphQL is the big game changer here. We’re convinced that it’s the future of APIs and we want to make it readily accessible to everyone else.

Scaphold.io's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Scaphold.io

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The Universal API

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

We're building Scaphold, a GraphQL-as-a-service platform that helps developers build mobile, web, and IoT apps faster. Our platform exposes a universal API with built-in services like push notifications, analytics, file storage, and custom code execution. We make GraphQL accessible so teams can manage complex data and workflows without building infrastructure from scratch.

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

We live in San Francisco, and the company will continue to be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in San Francisco keeps us close to our users and the startup ecosystem. It also makes it easier to build partnerships and raise capital.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Scaphold.io YC application?

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