Besimple AI YC Application

Spring 2025Active

Besimple AI went through Y Combinator in the Spring 2025 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: Spring 2025
Industry: B2B
Team size: 6
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Yi ZhongFounder
Bill WangFounder

What Besimple AI does

We are building the data layer for AI, starting with audio. We start with data collection, curating our own proprietary set of diverse conversational data covering a wide range of languages, dialects and accents. We then leverage human expert audio annotators and our own annotation platform to process audio data for Automatic Speech Recognition. With human level transcription and diarization, our data help push the audio model frontier. Today we have over millions of hours of conversational data, and growing. If you need audio data for training or evaluating your voice models or voice agents, reach out! We offer flexible licensing deals that work for startups and enterprises, with minimal process. Audio data should besimple:)

Besimple AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Besimple AI, Spring 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Besimple AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Voice data for AI

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

We collect and curate a large proprietary dataset of conversational audio covering many languages, dialects, and accents. Using our own annotation platform and expert annotators, we provide human-level transcription and speaker diarization to help train and evaluate speech recognition and voice agent models. We license flexible datasets to startups and enterprises who need high quality audio data.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is the hub for AI and voice tech; it's where our customers and partners are. Being here helps us hire and iterate quickly.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Besimple AI YC application?

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