AssemblyAI YC Application

Summer 2017Active

AssemblyAI went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2017 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 2017
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 65
Status: Active
Launched: 2017

Founders

Dylan FoxFounder

What AssemblyAI does

Today’s top Voice AI companies rely on AssemblyAI’s speech-to-text and speech understanding models to launch groundbreaking products fast and to scale with ease.

AssemblyAI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

AssemblyAI, Summer 2017 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

AssemblyAI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The best way to build Voice AI apps

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

We provide a speech-to-text and speech understanding API that developers can plug into to build voice AI applications. Our product turns audio into text and extracts meaning with minimal setup, enabling companies to add voice features without building complex models themselves.

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

We live and work both in New York City and remotely. After YC, the company would remain based in New York City with a distributed team.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We started in New York City where Dylan Fox is located. We find a mix of remote and NYC-based work lets us hire the best people while staying connected to a tech hub.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real AssemblyAI YC application?

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