Sublime Black YC Application

Winter 2019Inactive

Sublime Black went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2019 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 2019
Industry: B2BSecurity
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2018

Founders

Kembey GbarayorFounder
Charles Whitby, CISSP, PCIP, CRISC, CISMFounder

Sublime Black's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Sublime Black, Winter 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Sublime Black

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Automating cybersecurity incident response

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

We are building an AI-driven platform that automates the response to cybersecurity incidents for enterprise security teams. Our product analyzes alerts, prioritizes threats, and orchestrates remediation steps to reduce the time and effort security analysts spend on incident response.

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

We don't have a fixed location now, and after YC we would base the company wherever necessary, likely focusing on a major tech hub to engage with customers and investors.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We have stayed location-agnostic so far to let the product and problem guide us. Post-YC, being in a strong startup ecosystem will help us scale and get feedback faster.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Sublime Black YC application?

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