Datasaur YC Application

Winter 2020Active

Datasaur went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2020
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 55
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Ivan LeeFounder

What Datasaur does

Datasaur builds intelligent, optimized, human-centric LLM/NLP tools. If you're still using Excel or maintaining your own in-house tools, Datasaur can offer you significant cost-savings and improve the quality of your training data. We provide tools custom-built for power users. Our built-in intelligence helps augment your human labelers and avoid costly mistakes; our workforce management tool allows you to assign projects to and cross-validate the results from multiple labelers to ensure you can train your models with the utmost confidence. I have 10 years of consumer product experience. I'd be happy to help discuss product strategy and gamification. I'd love to get any advice you have to offer on SaaS and enterprise sales.

Datasaur's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Datasaur, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Datasaur

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Data labeling workforce management for NLP

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

We build a platform that manages data labeling workforces specifically for NLP tasks. Our tools help power users assign labeling projects, cross-validate work from multiple labelers, and augment human labelers with built-in intelligence to reduce mistakes and improve training data quality.

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

We are distributed across San Francisco, Sunnyvale, and remote locations. After YC, we would continue operating primarily out of San Francisco with a remote-friendly structure.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Our team started in the Bay Area with product and engineering talent there, and remote work allows us to tap into a wider pool. The Bay Area remains the best place for access to enterprise customers and investors.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Datasaur YC application?

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