CyberFend YC 申请

Winter 2015Acquired

CyberFend 在 Winter 2015 批次的 Y Combinator 中作为一家 B2B 公司进行过。以下是：公司做什么、谁创立了它，以及其 YC 申请，按照真实 YC 表格逐题重建。

YC 批次: Winter 2015
行业: B2BSecurity
团队规模: 2
状态: Acquired
已发布: 2014

创始人

Sreenath KurupatiFounder

CyberFend 做什么

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 的 YC 申请，重建版

Y Combinator 申请

CyberFend，Winter 2015 期。来自公开数据的真实申请问题解答。

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.

21 更多回答在完整申请中

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference 包含在完整版中。创建免费账户即可在 YC Insights 中打开，紧邻每个其他 YC 批次。

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常见问题解答

这是 CyberFend 的真实 YC 申请吗？

不是。Y Combinator 对提交的申请保密。这是重建版：使用 CyberFend 的公开数据（发布笔记、创始人背景、产品描述）回答真实的 YC 表格问题。它展示了像 CyberFend 这样的公司会如何向 YC 自我介绍，而不是他们提交的文本。

CyberFend 是哪个 YC 批次的？

CyberFend 是 Y Combinator Winter 2015 批次的成员。

谁创立了 CyberFend？

CyberFend 由 Sreenath Kurupati 创立。

CyberFend 做什么？

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

如何阅读完整的重建申请？

创建免费的 Round Funded 账户。YC Insights 中包含 CyberFend 的完整 26 个问题的版本，以及其他所有 YC 批次的公司信息。