Vapor YC Application

Summer 2011Inactive

Vapor went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2011 batch as a Consumer 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 2011
Industry: ConsumerSocial
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2012

Founders

Yin WuFounder
Xuwen CaoFounder
John HieseyFounder
Shazad MohamedFounder

What Vapor does

Creating modular server side software with Swift.

Vapor's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Vapor, Summer 2011 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Vapor

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

In-video advertising

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

We are building a platform that enables modular server-side software for inserting targeted ads directly into videos. Our product lets publishers and advertisers manage and deliver video ads dynamically, improving engagement and relevance.

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

We live and work in Brooklyn, NY, and the company would be based there after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose Brooklyn because we are established here as a team, and it allows us to stay connected to our network while building the product in a focused environment.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Vapor YC application?

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