Shadeform YC Application

Summer 2023Active

Shadeform went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 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: Summer 2023
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 11
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Ed GoodeFounder
Ronald DingFounder

What Shadeform does

Teams struggling with GPU availability use our platform to unlock capacity immediately for their growing AI workloads. Shadeform has a unified, easy-to-use API and platform to access and provision GPUs and deploy models for inference to any provider. With our aggregated availability and pricing data, we can help ensure your on-demand inference and training jobs will run on time at optimal cost.

Shadeform's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Shadeform, Summer 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Shadeform

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The GPU Cloud Marketplace

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

We built a unified platform and API that lets teams immediately unlock GPU capacity from multiple cloud providers for AI workloads. Our product aggregates GPU availability and pricing, so users can provision and deploy models for training or inference across providers without dealing with fragmented or unavailable resources. It's focused on solving GPU shortages for growing AI teams who need reliable, cost-effective access right now.

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

We don't publicly disclose our current or future base location.

Explain your decision regarding location.

n/a

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Shadeform YC application?

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