Thunder Compute YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Thunder Compute went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2024 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 2024
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Carl PetersonFounder
Brian ModelFounder

What Thunder Compute does

One-click GPU instances with persistent storage, snapshots, and hot-swappable hardware, with the lowest prices anywhere.

Thunder Compute's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Thunder Compute, Summer 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Thunder Compute

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The world's cheapest GPU cloud

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

We're building on-demand GPU compute with persistent storage and snapshots, designed so users can spin up GPU instances instantly, swap hardware without downtime, and manage state seamlessly. Our users are AI developers and data scientists who need affordable, reliable GPU infrastructure without locking into big cloud providers or expensive contracts.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company will be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the density of AI startups and engineers we want to hire from. Being here keeps us close to early users and partners in the AI and infrastructure space.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Thunder Compute YC application?

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