CrowdAI YC Application

Summer 2016Acquired

CrowdAI went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2016 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 2016
Industry: B2B
Team size: 32
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2016

Founders

Devaki RajFounder/CEO
Nic BorenszteinFounder/CTO
Pablo GarciaFounder

What CrowdAI does

CrowdAI equips enterprises of all sizes with the power of deep learning and the approachability and speed of no-code software. Our easy-to-master platform allows users of all technical abilities, from business operators to data scientists, to power real-time decisions from their visual world. Recognizing data as the new code, CrowdAI is the only vision AI platform to truly provide organizations with the infrastructure for the entire AI-lifecycle, empowering you to label data systematically, train models efficiently, scale models iteratively, and power decisions continuously.

CrowdAI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

CrowdAI, Summer 2016 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

CrowdAI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

No-code platform for computer vision AI

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

We built a no-code platform that allows companies to handle the entire vision AI lifecycle: labeling data, training models, scaling them, and deploying for real-time decision making. It works for people without AI expertise and streamlines how enterprises use deep learning with image and video data.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where the machine learning talent and customer base are. It also puts us close to early enterprise users and potential partners, which helps us iterate faster.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real CrowdAI YC application?

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