Aqua Voice YC Application

Winter 2024Active

Aqua Voice went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2024 batch as a Consumer 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: Consumer
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Finnian BrownFounder
Jack McIntireFounder

What Aqua Voice does

Super fast AI dictation that lets you talk into any text field -- Cursor, Gmail, Slack, even your terminal. It starts up in under 50ms, inserts text as fast as 450ms, and has state-of-the-art accuracy. Write 4x faster anywhere with Aqua. 🌊

Aqua Voice's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Aqua Voice

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Frontier Voice Input - write 4x faster than typing.

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

We built Aqua Voice, an AI dictation tool that lets users speak into any text field and see their words appear almost instantly. It starts up in under 50ms and inserts text as fast as 450ms with high accuracy. It's designed to work everywhere people write: email, Slack, code editors, and terminals. The goal is to make writing at least 4x faster than typing.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team is located and where the ecosystem for AI and productivity tools is strongest. Staying here lets us move fast with engineers, users, and early customers nearby.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Aqua Voice YC application?

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