Zillabyte YC Application

Winter 2012Inactive

Zillabyte went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2012 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 2012
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2011

Founders

Jake QuistFounder/CEO
Peter HarringtonFounder/Chief Scientist
Tyler NeylonFounder/CTO

What Zillabyte does

Zillabyte is a cloud platform for data analysis. Build apps, not infrastructure. We set up and maintain the infrastructure you need to analyze your data. All you need to do is develop your app locally and test it using the our CLI. When you need to scale, push to our servers. Easily add more functionality with components, modular code blocks that let you perform additional functions such as: geo coding, fraud analysis, and web scraping. Use your own private datasets or plug into our off-the-shelf data, which includes a copy of the web. You can even combine the two and extract rich insights.

Zillabyte's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Zillabyte, Winter 2012 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Zillabyte

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Palantir for sales people

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

We're building a cloud platform that handles all the infrastructure needed for data analysis. Developers build their analytics apps locally, test them with our command-line tools, and push them to our servers to scale. Our platform offers modular components for tasks like geo coding, fraud detection, and web scraping. Users can analyze private datasets or combine them with our preloaded web data to extract insights tailored for sales teams.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and the company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're in San Francisco because it's where we live and because it's central to the software and startup scene, which makes recruiting and connecting with early users easier.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Zillabyte YC application?

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