Ardis AI YC Application

Winter 2020Inactive

Ardis AI went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2020
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 3
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2020

Founders

Julie LewisFounder
Kyle LewisFounder
Brandon WhangFounder

What Ardis AI does

Ardis AI extracts information from your unstructured text data and automatically generates a knowledge graph that can be browsed and queried, by web app or by API. Users can ask complex questions about the content of your text data, and Ardis responds with the answers and the evidence -- even when the information needed to answer the questions comes from multiple documents. Ardis also provides summary views of the topics discussed in your data. Coming soon: an Ardis plug-in for Elasticsearch, and support for natural languages questions.

Ardis AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Ardis AI, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Ardis AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Transform your text data into a searchable knowledge graph

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

We build a tool that takes unstructured text data and extracts information to automatically generate a knowledge graph. The graph can be browsed and queried via web app or API. Users can ask complex questions that require aggregating information across multiple documents, and Ardis AI returns answers along with the evidence. We also provide summaries of the main topics discussed in the data. We're working on an Elasticsearch plugin and natural language question support next.

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

We live in Mountain View, CA, and the company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in Mountain View puts us close to our technical resources and potential customers. YC is here too, so it fits with where we've already been working and building.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Ardis AI YC application?

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