Ubicloud YC Application

Winter 2024Active

Ubicloud went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2024
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 15
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Umur CubukcuFounder
Ozgun ErdoganFounder
Daniel FarinaFounder

What Ubicloud does

Ubicloud is an open source cloud that can run anywhere. Our cloud services include elastic compute, block storage, virtual networking, managed Postgres, K8s, AI inference, and powerful IAM. Ubicloud provides these services on bare metal providers, such as Hetzner, Leaseweb, or AWS Bare Metal. You can self-host our software or use our managed service to reduce your cloud costs by 3-10x.

Ubicloud's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Ubicloud, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Ubicloud

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Open source alternative to AWS

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

We are building an open source cloud platform that runs on bare metal providers like Hetzner, Leaseweb, or AWS Bare Metal. It offers elastic compute, block storage, virtual networking, managed Postgres, Kubernetes, AI inference, and IAM. Customers can self-host or use our managed service to cut cloud costs by 3-10x.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company is based here as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco allows us to be close to early B2B infrastructure customers and talent. Being here connects us with the tech ecosystem we need to grow.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Ubicloud YC application?

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