Sunpia YC Application

Summer 2022Active

Sunpia went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2022 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 2022
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Alan PhamFounder
Ivy PhamFounder
Vikranth SrivatsaFounder

What Sunpia does

Sunpia lets developers easily experience the cost and speed benefits of serverless infrastructure, without having to rewrite their code. Developers annotate their code and Sunpia automatically designs a microservice version of it they can deploy on their own cloud.

Sunpia's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Sunpia, Summer 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Sunpia

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Deploy serverless without rewriting code

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

We built Sunpia to let developers run their code on serverless infrastructure without rewriting it. Instead of wrestling with new frameworks, devs annotate their existing code and our platform automatically transforms it into microservices they can deploy on their cloud. This delivers the cost and performance benefits of serverless with minimal friction.

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

We currently live in San Jose, California, and work remotely. Post-YC, the company will be based in the Bay Area to stay close to the tech ecosystem and investors.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're already based in San Jose, so staying here after YC keeps us close to customers, cloud providers, and partners. Remote work lets us stay distributed while keeping a Bay Area HQ for networking and recruiting.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Sunpia YC application?

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