Candidature YC de Caution

Summer 2026Active

George Town

Caution a été sélectionné par Y Combinator dans le cadre du batch Summer 2026 en tant qu'entreprise B2B. Ci-dessous : ce que fait l'entreprise, qui l'a fondée, et sa candidature à YC, reconstruite question par question dans le vrai formulaire YC.

Batch YC: Summer 2026
Secteur d'activité: B2BInfrastructure
Lieu: George Town
Taille de l'équipe: 5
Statut: Active
Lancé: 2026

Fondateurs

Anton LivajaFounder/CEO
Ksenia LeskoFounder
Lance VickFounder/CTO

Ce que fait Caution

Caution is a hosting platform for software you can't afford to get hacked. It simplifies and extends confidential compute, and lets developers deploy workloads to secure enclaves in minutes and give customers, auditors, and counterparties cryptographic proof that production is running the exact reviewed source code, build, configuration, and runtime - not an opaque binary controlled by a cloud operator or internal admin. Confidential computing hardware exists, but the tooling is too fragmented and incomplete for most teams to use well. Today, attestation often proves only that a binary has a certain hash; it does not prove what source code produced that binary. Building the missing deployment, reproducibility, and verification layer requires specialized security engineering and often locks teams into one cloud or hardware stack. Caution turns that into a simple git-based workflow that builds reproducible enclave images, provisions infrastructure, and lets anyone independently verify what is running. We built Caution after years securing high-risk systems through Distrust, where we worked with hedge funds, custodians, blockchain teams, cloud platforms, and critical grid operators on systems responsible for more than $600B in assets. Again and again, the same problem showed up: teams running mission-critical infrastructure could not reliably prove what was executing in production. As AI, fintech, healthcare, and regulated data collaboration move into the cloud, "trust us" is no longer enough. Caution is a general-purpose platform: if it runs on a server, it can run verifiably on Caution. We're starting where trust failures cost the most, but we believe verifiable compute will become the default way software runs, the same way HTTPS became the default way it's served. Infrastructure you can verify, not trust.

Candidature YC de Caution, reconstruite

Candidature Y Combinator

Caution, promotion Summer 2026. Les vraies questions de candidature, répondues à partir de données publiques.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Caution

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Hosting for software you can't afford to have hacked

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

Caution is a hosting platform for running workloads in secure enclaves. Developers deploy code to confidential compute hardware, get cryptographic proof of what's running, and let customers or auditors independently verify production matches the reviewed source, build, and config. We manage the build, reproducibility, and attestation, and provide a git-based workflow so infra teams don't have to be low-level security experts to get real verifiability.

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

We are based in George Town, Cayman Islands now, and will keep the company based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We set up in George Town for regulatory and legal reasons. The Cayman Islands is a known international base for infrastructure, fintech, and security-focused startups.

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Questions fréquemment posées

Est-ce la vraie candidature YC de Caution ?

Non. Y Combinator garde les candidatures soumises privées. Ceci est une reconstruction : les vraies questions du formulaire YC, répondues à partir des données publiques de Caution (notes de lancement, parcours des fondateurs, description du produit). Cela montre comment une entreprise comme Caution se présenterait à YC, pas le texte qu'ils ont soumis.

À quel batch YC Caution appartenait-il ?

Caution faisait partie du batch Summer 2026 de Y Combinator.

Qui a fondé Caution ?

Caution a été fondé par Anton Livaja, Ksenia Lesko, Lance Vick.

Que fait Caution ?

Hosting platform for software you can't afford to have hacked

Comment lire la candidature complète reconstruite ?

Créez un compte Round Funded gratuit. La version complète de la candidature de Caution en 26 réponses, et de chaque autre promotion YC, se trouve dans YC Insights.