Sixa YC Application

Summer 2016Inactive

Sixa went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2016
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 11
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2016

What Sixa does

Sixa delivers a full computer that operates right from the cloud via a client app. With Sixa you can forget about hardware upgrades and slow performance, and easily run any app, anytime, anywhere and on any device.

Sixa's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Sixa, Summer 2016 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Sixa

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Personal computer in the cloud

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

We built Sixa, a cloud-based personal computer accessible from any device through a client app. It lets users run heavy or update-heavy software without worrying about local hardware limits or performance issues.

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 as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco provides the best access to technical talent and a strong early adopter community for cloud computing products.

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 Sixa YC application?

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