Vapor
In-video advertising.
Y CombinatorSummer 2011InactiveConsumerSocialVideoAdvertising
What they do
Problem
Businesses need a way to place and manage advertisements within video content.
Solution
Vapor provides software for in-video advertising, built as modular server-side components in Swift.
Who it's for
Advertisers and video publishers/streaming platforms that want to run in-video ads.
Founders
Yin Wu
Founder
Yin Wu is a serial entrepreneur who sold her last previous company to Microsoft in 2015. She was one of the youngest principal engineers at Microsoft and built products that applied machine learning to mobile products. Prior to Microsoft, Yin studied computer science at Stanford. She dropped out in 2011 to join Y Combinator for her first startup and is a three time Y Combinator alumnus (S11, S13, W20).
Xuwen Cao
Founder
John Hiesey
Founder
Shazad Mohamed
Founder
Company timeline
- YC batchSummer 2011
- StatusInactive
- Team size2 people
- LocationBrooklyn, NY, USA
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