Application YC di CyberFend

Winter 2015Acquired

CyberFend ha partecipato a Y Combinator nel batch Winter 2015 come azienda B2B. Sotto: cosa fa l'azienda, chi l'ha fondata e la sua application a YC, ricostruita domanda per domanda nel form reale di YC.

Batch YC: Winter 2015
Settore: B2BSecurity
Dimensione team: 2
Stato: Acquired
Lanciata: 2014

Founder

Sreenath KurupatiFounder

Cosa fa 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.

Application YC di CyberFend, ricostruita

Domanda per Y Combinator

CyberFend, batch Winter 2015. Le vere domande del form, risposte da dati pubblici.

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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Domande Frequenti

Questa è l'application YC reale di CyberFend?

No. Y Combinator mantiene private le application inviate. Questa è una ricostruzione: le domande del form YC reale, a cui si è risposto usando i dati pubblici di CyberFend (note di lancio, background dei founder, descrizione del prodotto). Mostra come un'azienda come CyberFend si presenterebbe a YC, non il testo che hanno inviato.

A quale batch YC apparteneva CyberFend?

CyberFend apparteneva al batch Winter 2015 di Y Combinator.

Chi ha fondato CyberFend?

CyberFend è stato fondato da Sreenath Kurupati.

Cosa fa CyberFend?

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

Come leggo la ricostruzione completa della application?

Crea un account Round Funded gratuito. La versione completa di 26 risposte della application di CyberFend, e di ogni altro batch YC, è in YC Insights.