AirCaps

AirCaps YC-Bewerbung

Fall 2025Active

AirCaps durchlief Y Combinator im Fall 2025-Batch als ein Consumer-Unternehmen. Unten: Was das Unternehmen tut, wer es gegründet hat und seine Bewerbung bei YC, Frage für Frage im echten YC-Formular rekonstruiert.

YC-Batch
Fall 2025
Branche
Consumer
Teamgröße
5
Status
Active
Gestartet
2025

Gründer

  • Madhav Lavakare
    Madhav LavakareFounder
  • Nirbhay Narang
    Nirbhay NarangFounder

Was AirCaps tut

AirCaps is bringing AI assistance to in-person conversations. Our AI-copilot provides live captions, translations, AI meeting notes and insights for in-person conversations in real-time. It's deployed as an app for lightweight AR glasses so you can see visual information overlaid onto your field of vision. You can think of it like a Zoom AI meeting assistant or Granola, but for in-person conversations, and with the ability to proactively help you in real-time, not just after the conversation. We’re building the capture and intelligence layer for the 216 billion daily conversations that happen face-to-face. We’ve already processed 16,500 hours of real-world conversations and counting. Today, AirCaps assists with 11% of our users’ in-person conversations. We did $93K in revenue in October and grew 6.5x from September while spending <$3K on marketing (and hit $70K in revenue in the first 2 weeks of November). Our power users average 6h+ daily usage and our day-30 retention is 91%. We previously went viral (75M+ views on TikTok, 150K+ followers) and have been featured by The New Yorker, WIRED, and Forbes. Madhav (CEO, Yale CS) has been building in audio and AR since age 13, starting with Google Glass apps and voice assistants for Raspberry Pis. He researched audio AI at the MIT Media Lab. Nirbhay (CTO, Cornell CS) built voice AI on smart glasses in high school and built conversational AI products as the first engineer at 2 YC startups.

AirCapss YC-Bewerbung, rekonstruiert

Y Combinator Bewerbung

AirCaps, Fall 2025 Batch. Die echten Fragen des Antrags, beantwortet aus öffentlichen Daten.

  1. Founders2
  2. Company7
  3. Progress7
  4. Idea4
  5. Equity3
  6. Curious2
  7. Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

AirCaps

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI copilot for in-person conversations

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We build an AI assistant that helps with live captions, translations, meeting notes, and insights during in-person conversations. It runs on lightweight AR glasses and overlays relevant information in real-time, helping users understand and follow complex discussions as they happen, not just after.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in San Francisco, CA. The company will be based here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team already lives and where the AR and AI ecosystems are strong. It's the right place to iterate quickly with early users and hardware partners.

21 weitere Antworten in der vollständigen Bewerbung

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference sind in der Vollversion. Erstelle ein kostenloses Konto, um es in YC Insights neben jedem anderen YC-Batch zu öffnen.

Häufig gestellte Fragen

Ist das die echte YC-Bewerbung von AirCaps?

Nein. Y Combinator hält eingereichte Bewerbungen privat. Dies ist eine Rekonstruktion: die echten Fragen des YC-Formulars, beantwortet aus den öffentlichen Daten von AirCaps (Veröffentlichungsnotizen, Gründerhintergründe, Produktbeschreibung). Sie zeigt, wie sich ein Unternehmen wie AirCaps bei YC präsentieren würde, nicht den Text, den sie eingereicht haben.

In welchem YC-Batch war AirCaps?

AirCaps war Teil des Y Combinator Fall 2025-Batches.

Wer hat AirCaps gegründet?

AirCaps wurde von Madhav Lavakare, Nirbhay Narang gegründet.

Was macht AirCaps?

The AI copilot for in-person conversations.

Wie lese ich die vollständige, rekonstruierte Bewerbung?

Erstelle ein kostenloses Round Funded Konto. Die vollständige 26-Antwort-Version der Bewerbung von AirCaps, und jede andere YC-Kohorte, findest du in YC Insights.

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