Datacurve

Datacurve YC Application

Winter 2024Active

Datacurve went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2024 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 2024
Industry
B2B
Team size
4
Status
Active
Launched
2024

Founders

  • Serena Ge
    Serena GeFounder
  • Charley Lee
    Charley LeeFounder

What Datacurve does

We generate expert quality coding data at scale for fine-tuning LLMs

Datacurve's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Datacurve, Winter 2024 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

Datacurve

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Expert quality coding data for LLM training

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

We build a platform that generates and curates high-quality coding datasets for fine-tuning and evaluating large language models. Our product focuses on delivering expert-level annotated code examples and benchmarks at scale, which helps AI teams improve model accuracy and robustness in coding tasks.

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 has the talent and investor density fitting for a company building tooling around AI and developer data. We're already established here and close to partners and potential customers.

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 Datacurve YC application?

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

What YC batch was Datacurve in?

Datacurve was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2024 batch.

Who founded Datacurve?

Datacurve was founded by Serena Ge, Charley Lee.

What does Datacurve do?

Frontier coding data for training and evaluating LLMs

How do I read the full reconstructed application?

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

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