Inscrição YC de CyberFend

Winter 2015Acquired

CyberFend passou pela Y Combinator no batch Winter 2015 como uma empresa B2B. Abaixo: o que a empresa faz, quem a fundou e sua inscrição para a YC, reconstruída pergunta por pergunta no formulário real da YC.

Batch YC: Winter 2015
Indústria: B2BSecurity
Tamanho da equipe: 2
Status: Acquired
Lançada: 2014

Fundadores

Sreenath KurupatiFounder

O que CyberFend faz

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.

Inscrição YC de CyberFend, reconstruída

Inscrição Y Combinator

CyberFend, lote Winter 2015. As verdadeiras perguntas do formulário, respondidas com dados públicos.

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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Perguntas Frequentes

Esta é a inscrição real da YC de CyberFend?

Não. A Y Combinator mantém as inscrições submetidas em privado. Esta é uma reconstrução: as perguntas reais do formulário da YC, respondidas a partir dos dados públicos de CyberFend (notas de lançamento, históricos de fundadores, descrição do produto). Mostra como uma empresa como CyberFend se apresentaria à YC, não o texto que eles submeteram.

Em qual batch da YC CyberFend esteve?

CyberFend fez parte do batch Winter 2015 da Y Combinator.

Quem fundou o CyberFend?

O CyberFend foi fundado por Sreenath Kurupati.

O que o CyberFend faz?

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

Como eu leio o application completo reconstruído?

Crie uma conta gratuita no Round Funded. A versão completa de 26 respostas do application do CyberFend, e de todos os outros lotes do YC, está no YC Insights.