Streem YC Application

Summer 2012Acquired

Streem went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2012 batch as a Consumer 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 2012
Industry: ConsumerContent
Team size: 4
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2012

Founders

Ritik MalhotraFounder/CEO
Tanooj LuthraFounder/CTO
Samvit RamadurgamFounder

What Streem does

Streem ( offers unlimited cloud storage for your media. Store, stream, and share all your favorite movies, photos, music, and more with your friends! Streem is a magical drive on your device that lives in the cloud and gives you unlimited space. You can put files into Streem, free up space on your computer and mobile devices, and instantly access and share your content anywhere, anytime. Unlike other cloud storage tools, Streem takes up no space on your computer, but still gives you instant access to your files without any lag. All media on Streem is converted on-the-fly so you can access it seamlessly regardless of the device or bandwidth.

Streem's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Streem, Summer 2012 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Streem

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Unlimited cloud storage for media streaming

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

We built Streem, a cloud storage service that acts as a magical drive on your device but stores all media in the cloud. It gives unlimited storage for movies, photos, music, and more without taking any local disk space, with instant access and on-the-fly media conversion for any device or bandwidth.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team and early users are concentrated. It's the best place for access to talent, customers, and YC itself.

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 Streem YC application?

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