Aedilic YC Application

Winter 2024Inactive

Aedilic went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2024 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Winter 2024
Industry: B2BSecurity
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2024

Founders

Nicholas WaltzFounder
Lukas SchneiderFounder

What Aedilic does

Open-source software for detecting AI-generated images (diffusion, GAN, deepfakes).

Aedilic's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Aedilic, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Aedilic

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Open-Source AI-generated image/deepfake detection

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

We are building open-source software to detect AI-generated images across diffusion models, GANs, and deepfakes. Our tool analyzes images to identify synthetic content, helping security teams and platforms verify authenticity and combat misinformation.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the technical talent and ecosystem needed to build AI and computer vision tools like ours. Being here makes it easier to engage with potential early users and partners in security and AI.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Aedilic YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Aedilic's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Aedilic would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.