Design Arena YC Application
Design Arena went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2025 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
- Summer 2025
- Industry
- Consumer
- Team size
- 3
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2025
Founders
Grace LiFounder
Kamryn OhlyFounder
Design Arena's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Design Arena, Summer 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Design Arena
World's largest crowdsourced benchmark for AI-generated design
Design Arena is a platform that crowdsources evaluations of AI-generated designs to create a large, open benchmark. We help designers, researchers, and AI developers understand how their design AI models perform in real-world conditions by collecting comparative feedback across a wide range of generated designs. This benchmark creates transparency and drives improvements in AI for design.
We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and the company will continue to be based here after YC.
San Francisco is the center of design tech and AI innovation and that's where our users and collaborators are. It keeps us close to both talent and early customers.
21 more answers in the full application
Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Design Arena YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Design Arena's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Design Arena would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Design Arena in?
Design Arena was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2025 batch.
Who founded Design Arena?
Design Arena was founded by Grace Li, Kamryn Ohly.
What does Design Arena do?
World's largest crowdsourced benchmark for AI-generated design
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Design Arena's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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