Candidature YC de CyberFend

Winter 2015Acquired

CyberFend a été sélectionné par Y Combinator dans le cadre du batch Winter 2015 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: Winter 2015
Secteur d'activité: B2BSecurity
Taille de l'équipe: 2
Statut: Acquired
Lancé: 2014

Fondateurs

Sreenath KurupatiFounder

Ce que fait 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.

Candidature YC de CyberFend, reconstruite

Candidature Y Combinator

CyberFend, promotion Winter 2015. Les vraies questions de candidature, répondues à partir de données publiques.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

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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Questions fréquemment posées

Est-ce la vraie candidature YC de CyberFend ?

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 CyberFend (notes de lancement, parcours des fondateurs, description du produit). Cela montre comment une entreprise comme CyberFend se présenterait à YC, pas le texte qu'ils ont soumis.

À quel batch YC CyberFend appartenait-il ?

CyberFend faisait partie du batch Winter 2015 de Y Combinator.

Qui a fondé CyberFend ?

CyberFend a été fondé par Sreenath Kurupati.

Que fait CyberFend ?

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

Comment lire la candidature complète reconstruite ?

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