CyberFend YCアプリケーション

Winter 2015Acquired

CyberFendはWinter 2015バッチでB2B企業としてY Combinatorを卒業しました。以下：会社の事業内容、創業者、そして実際のYCフォームで質問ごとに再構築されたYCへの応募内容。

YCバッチ: Winter 2015
業界: B2BSecurity
チーム規模: 2
ステータス: Acquired
ローンチ済み: 2014

創業者

Sreenath KurupatiFounder

CyberFendの事業内容

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.

CyberFendのYCアプリケーション、再構築済み

Y Combinator 申請

CyberFend 様、Winter 2015 バッチ。公開データから回答された、実際のフォームの質問。

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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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CyberFendの実際のYCアプリケーションですか？

いいえ。Y Combinatorは提出されたアプリケーションを非公開にしています。これは再構築されたものです。実際のYCフォームの質問に、CyberFendの公開データ（ローンチノート、創業者経歴、製品説明）から回答しています。CyberFendのような会社がYCにどのようにアピールするかを示しており、彼らが提出したテキストではありません。