Teleport YC Application

Summer 2015Active

Teleport went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2015 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 2015
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 255
Status: Active
Launched: 2015

Founders

Ev KontsevoyFounder/CEO
Alexander KlizhentasFounder/CTO
Taylor WakefieldFounder/COO

What Teleport does

Teleport unifies identities - humans, machines, and AI - with strong identity implementation to speed up engineering, improve resiliency against identity-based attacks, and secure AI in production infrastructure.

Teleport's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Teleport, Summer 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Teleport

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The Infrastructure Identity Company

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

Teleport is an identity platform that unifies humans, machines, and AI identities in infrastructure. Our product solves the problem of scattered and insecure access controls in cloud and on-prem environments, speeding up engineering teams and securing systems against identity-based attacks.

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

We're currently based in Oakland, CA, and will stay there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We all live in Oakland and have built our network and team here. It's a growing tech hub with the talent and infrastructure we need. Moving would disrupt our momentum.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Teleport YC application?

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