Aplicación YC de CyberFend

Winter 2015Acquired

CyberFend pasó por Y Combinator en el batch Winter 2015 como una empresa de B2B. Abajo: qué hace la empresa, quién la fundó y su aplicación a YC, reconstruida pregunta por pregunta en el formulario real de YC.

Batch YC: Winter 2015
Industria: B2BSecurity
Tamaño del equipo: 2
Estado: Acquired
Lanzado: 2014

Fundadores

Sreenath KurupatiFounder

Lo que hace CyberFend

Cyberfend offers a robust security solution to protect your web and mobile applications from sophisticated attacks and fraudulent activity. Cyberfend's solution detects account take-over, payment fraud and the use of stolen credentials. All of these problems are relevant to every consumer facing web and mobile product/service. Cyberfend’s solution uses a new security paradigm - human cognitive science coupled with advanced machine learning. The result is a robust detection system with near zero false positives and false negatives. Today Cyberfend protects nearly a billion login and payment transactions every month for many large e-commerce, web and payment customers. Cyberfend's product is at the intersection of almost every single cutting edge technology today: a) Our core product employs heavy machine learning b) On the backed, our product is cloud based and deals with enormous scale (customers are directing significant portions of their traffic to us) c) On the front end we need to deal with both web and mobile (IOS, SDK) challenges.Please visit us at: Cyberfend is backed by Y Combinator, SV Angel and A Capital. Cyberfend was acquired by Akamai Technologies in December 2016.

Aplicación YC de CyberFend, reconstruida

Solicitud de Y Combinator

CyberFend, batch Winter 2015. Las preguntas reales del formulario, respondidas con datos públicos.

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Company

Company name

CyberFend

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Real-time web and mobile fraud detection

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

We are building a security solution that protects consumer-facing web and mobile applications from sophisticated attacks like account take-overs, payment fraud, and stolen credential use. Our product combines human cognitive science with machine learning to detect fraud with near-zero false positives and negatives. It runs in the cloud and supports web and mobile platforms, handling enormous scale for many large e-commerce and payment customers.

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

We live in Santa Clara, CA, and would base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in Santa Clara because we are close to many of our customers and partners in the Bay Area, and it's where we have the right talent and infrastructure for building our cloud security platform.

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Preguntas Frecuentes

¿Es esta la aplicación YC real de CyberFend?

No. Y Combinator mantiene privadas las aplicaciones enviadas. Esta es una reconstrucción: las preguntas reales del formulario de YC, respondidas a partir de los datos públicos de CyberFend (notas de lanzamiento, antecedentes de fundadores, descripción del producto). Muestra cómo una empresa como CyberFend se presentaría a YC, no el texto que enviaron.

¿En qué batch de YC estuvo CyberFend?

CyberFend formó parte del batch Winter 2015 de Y Combinator.

¿Quién fundó CyberFend?

CyberFend fue fundado por Sreenath Kurupati.

¿A qué se dedica CyberFend?

Cyberfend delivers robust, real-time web and mobile security by…

¿Cómo leo la aplicación completa reconstruida?

Crea una cuenta gratuita de Round Funded. La versión completa de 26 respuestas de la aplicación de CyberFend, y de cada otro batch de YC, está en YC Insights.