Dataland YC Application

Summer 2020Active

Dataland went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2020 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 2020
Industry: B2BOperations
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Arthur WuFounder
Howard ZuoCo-Founder

What Dataland does

Dataland is the applied AI lab for complex operations and customer support. In 8 months, we've grown to multi-million dollar ARR as just two founders and are highly profitable. We’re partnering with some of the fastest growing startups and public companies in the world.

Dataland's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Dataland, Summer 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Dataland

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI agents for customer support

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

We build AI agents tailored to complex operations and customer support workflows. These agents process data and automate responses to reduce workload for customer success teams at fast-growing startups and public companies.

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

We live in New York, NY, and after YC the company would remain based there.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are all located in New York and have built our network and early users here. Staying local lets us move fast and stay close to our early customers.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Dataland YC application?

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