Aquarium Learning YC Application
Aquarium Learning went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2020 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
- Summer 2020
- Industry
- B2BInfrastructure
- Team size
- 12
- Status
- Acquired
- Launched
- 2020
Founders
Peter GaoFounder
Quinn JohnsonFounder
What Aquarium Learning does
ML models are only as good as the datasets they're trained on, and that means that most improvement to model performance comes from improvement to the quality and diversity of their datasets. Our tooling makes it easy for ML teams to find anomalies + failure patterns in their datasets and fix these problems by editing / adding the right data. So the next time you retrain your model, it just gets better.
Aquarium Learning's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Aquarium Learning, Summer 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Aquarium Learning
Improve ML models by improving datasets
We build tooling that helps machine learning teams identify problems in their training datasets - anomalies, failure patterns, missing examples - and then directly edit or add to the data to improve model performance on retraining. Our product surfaces these dataset issues and makes fixing them faster and more precise.
We live and work primarily in San Francisco and remotely. Post-YC, the company would remain based in San Francisco with remote team members.
We're based in San Francisco where there is a strong AI and startup ecosystem and proximity to many ML teams who could benefit from improving their datasets. Remote work also lets us tap talent more broadly.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Aquarium Learning YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Aquarium Learning's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Aquarium Learning would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Aquarium Learning in?
Aquarium Learning was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2020 batch.
Who founded Aquarium Learning?
Aquarium Learning was founded by Peter Gao, Quinn Johnson.
What does Aquarium Learning do?
We help ML teams improve their models by improving their datasets
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Aquarium Learning's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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