SingleStore YC Application

Winter 2011Active

SingleStore went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2011 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 2011
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 150
Status: Active
Launched: 2012

Founders

Eric FrenkielFounder/CEO
Nikita ShamgunovFounder/CTO

What SingleStore does

MemSQL is The No-Limits DatabaseTM, powering modern applications and analytical systems with a cloud-native, massively scalable architecture for maximum ingest and query performance at the highest concurrency. MemSQL envisions a world where every business can make decisions in real-time and every experience is optimized through data. Global enterprises use the MemSQL distributed database to easily ingest, process, analyze, and act on data in order to thrive in today’s insight-driven economy. MemSQL is optimized to run on any public cloud or on-premises with commodity hardware. Visit or follow us @memsql. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA with offices in Seattle, WA and Portland OR, MemSQL has raised over $100M from top investors including GV, Accel Partners, and Khosla Ventures, among others. MemSQL is trusted by customers including Uber, Akamai, Dell EMC, Samsung, Comcast, Kellogg, and more. If you want to work at a company that celebrates diversity, innovation, leadership, and creativity every day, check out our openings at

SingleStore's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

SingleStore, Winter 2011 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

SingleStore

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Cloud-native operational database for speed and scale

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

We built SingleStore, a distributed, cloud-native database designed to handle real-time ingest, queries, and analysis at scale. It supports operational and analytical workloads with high concurrency and low latency, running on any cloud or commodity hardware.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we're based, and it's the best place to be close to customers, cloud providers, and data infrastructure talent critical for growing SingleStore.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real SingleStore YC application?

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