Booth AI

Booth AI YC Application

Winter 2023Acquired

Booth AI went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2023 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 2023
Industry
B2BRetail
Team size
3
Status
Acquired
Launched
2023

Founders

  • Nick Locascio
    Nick LocascioFounder
  • Ian Baldwin
    Ian BaldwinFounder

What Booth AI does

Booth AI enables companies to supercharge their creative output with a generative-AI powered image production platform. Booth AI replaces complicated, labor intensive, time consuming and expensive commercial product lifestyle photoshoots. Brand managers, merchandisers, and marketers can produce beautiful lifestyle images in a matter of seconds at a fraction of the cost of traditional photoshoots.

Booth AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Booth AI, Winter 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

  1. Founders2
  2. Company7
  3. Progress7
  4. Idea4
  5. Equity3
  6. Curious2
  7. Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Booth AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Generative AI Photographer for E-Commerce

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

We built a generative AI platform that replaces traditional commercial product lifestyle photoshoots. Brand managers and marketers use Booth AI to produce professional lifestyle images of products instantly, without the complexity, cost, or time of physical photoshoots.

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

Nick is based in San Francisco, and Ian works remote. After YC, the company would stay primarily based in San Francisco with remote flexibility.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team is and where most ecommerce and marketing technology companies are. Being here gives us access to talent, customers, and partners relevant to our product.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Booth AI YC application?

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

What YC batch was Booth AI in?

Booth AI was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2023 batch.

Who founded Booth AI?

Booth AI was founded by Nick Locascio, Ian Baldwin.

What does Booth AI do?

Generative AI Photographer for E-Commerce

How do I read the full reconstructed application?

Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Booth AI's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.

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