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CoreOS.com sounds super promising. I'm gonna be rooting for them. It's been a while since I last saw a real CS startup come out of Silicon Valley, much less YC.
by dude_abides 13y ago
CoreOS.com sounds super promising. I'm gonna be rooting for them. It's been a while since I last saw a real CS startup come out of Silicon Valley, much less YC. The action in this space seems to all be happening in Boston.
- ernestipark 13y agoWhat companies in Boston are you referring to?
- dude_abides 13y agoMy field is data analytics, and the companies that come to mind are Vertica, Tokutek, Hadapt, Autonomy. Clearly Palo Alto has Cloudera, Hortonworks, Trifacta, and I'm sure countless others. I was generalizing incorrectly. The point I was really making was that most YC startups are focused on solving for inefficiencies in various verticals (inspired by AirBnB I guess). Very few are focused on core CS. So I was pleasantly surprised to read about CoreOS.
- coffeemug 13y agoSorry to toot our own horn, but RethinkDB is a YC startup which is about as hardcore CS as you can get. Clustrix too (though you wouldn't normally hear about them since they're not too focused on the open source community). There are a couple of others but I can't think of them now off the top of my head. Core CS/systems startups are definitely a minority in YC, but there are more than a few!
- kylec 13y agoI wasn't even aware CoreOS is a Y Combinator company, I wonder what the monetization strategy is.