DeepReach Inc. YC Application

Summer 2026Active

San Francisco

DeepReach Inc. went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2026
Industry: B2B
Location: San Francisco
Team size: 6
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Chris LiuFounder/CTO

What DeepReach Inc. does

Physical AI - robots and world models - is bottlenecked on one thing: diverse, real-world data at massive scale showing how humans actually do work in the physical world. It was never written down, and you can't buy it, because no one has ever captured it. Only real local experts, the people who do this work every day, can produce data this authentic and valuable. DeepReach builds the network that reaches them. We design and manufacture wearable stereo capture devices, then place them with local data partners who run collection as their own business - in warehouses, workshops, farms, kitchens and repair shops. They own the local relationships; we supply the hardware, the software platform, the quality pipeline and the payments. Anyone can run a data business. That structure is what produces diversity. Instead of thousands of hours inside one environment, we deliver hours spread across thousands of environments - which is what actually makes robot policies generalize. 475 devices in the field and 100+ data partners are live across 7 countries, adding new partners every week. They've collected nearly 150,000 clips in the past three months, with volume roughly doubling month over month. Our data is in production with multiple frontier model and robotics companies, and we're scaling to 10,000+ devices across 50 countries.

DeepReach Inc.'s YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

DeepReach Inc., Summer 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

DeepReach Inc.

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Network for Physical AI Data Business

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

We build and deploy a platform for collecting massive, diverse, real-world human work data - crucial for helping robots and physical AI generalize. Our product is a full-stack solution: we design and manufacture wearable stereo capture devices, supply them to local data partners, and provide the platform, quality pipeline, and payments infrastructure. Anyone can launch a physical data business in their workshop, warehouse, or farm using DeepReach. The output is unique: orders of magnitude more diverse human demonstration data than anyone else.

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

We are based in San Francisco, CA and will stay there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is the center of the AI industry and close to our early users and partners in robotics and frontier model companies. It's also where our hardware and software teams work best together.

21 more answers in the full application

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Is this the real DeepReach Inc. YC application?

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