Datoric YC Application

Winter 2026Active

Datoric went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2026
Industry: B2B
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Nikhil ReddyFounder
Jeffrey LinFounder

Datoric's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Datoric, Winter 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Datoric

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Responsibly sourced data for multimodal AI

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

We provide responsibly sourced, curated datasets specifically designed for training multimodal AI models. Our platform helps AI teams get high-quality labeled data combining text, images, and other modalities while maintaining ethical sourcing standards.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and after YC, the company will continue to be based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we both live and is the hub for AI startups. Staying here keeps us close to early customers and recruiting talent for a data-centric AI company like ours.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Datoric YC application?

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