CueBench YC Application
San Francisco
CueBench went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2026 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 2026
- Industry
- B2B
- Location
- San Francisco
- Team size
- 3
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2026
Founders
Dillon MehtaFounder/CEO
Neel GaddeFounder/COO
Rishan HemrajaniFounder
CueBench's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
CueBench, Summer 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
CueBench
RL post-training for science reasoning & engineering
CueBench is post-training reinforcement learning for science reasoning and performance engineering. We help data engineering and ML teams use RL to specify, optimize, and audit complex reasoning and compute pipelines - especially those involving scientific or technical tasks. The product automates fine-tuning on real usage data, with a focus on hard-to-specify objectives and reliability for B2B. Our main users are teams who care about model reliability and performance when deploying ML in production.
We all live in San Francisco, CA, and that's where the company will be based after YC.
We're in San Francisco because it's the best place for technical B2B companies - talent, early customers, and peers are all here. Being local also helps us work closely as a small engineering team.
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 CueBench YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from CueBench's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like CueBench would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was CueBench in?
CueBench was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2026 batch.
Who founded CueBench?
CueBench was founded by Dillon Mehta, Neel Gadde, Rishan Hemrajani.
What does CueBench do?
RL post-training for science reasoning and performance engineering
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of CueBench's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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