Decohere YC Application

Winter 2023Active

Decohere went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2023 batch as a Consumer 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 2023
Industry: ConsumerContent
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Rishi BhutaFounder
Will StithFounder

What Decohere does

Decohere is building product and infrastructure for real-time generative AI. We enable our customers to iterate towards their creative vision without waiting for long-running GPU jobs.

Decohere's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Decohere, Winter 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Decohere

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Real-time generative AI

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

We are building infrastructure and tools that enable real-time interaction with generative AI models, focusing on video and other creative content. Our product lets users iterate quickly on creative projects without waiting for slow GPU processing.

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

We live in Seattle, WA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Seattle is our home and where our team is established. We have the resources and connections here to grow smoothly.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Decohere YC application?

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