Downlink YC Application

Winter 2024Active

Downlink went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2024 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 2024
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 1
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

TJ MurphyFounder

What Downlink does

Downlink is a platform that continuously improves your AI. Boost rate limits, slash latency, and raise accuracy.All through one simple API.

Downlink's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Downlink, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Downlink

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Make your LLMs 3x faster.

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

We built an API platform that continuously improves large language model performance for businesses. Our product boosts rate limits, reduces latency, and improves accuracy for existing LLMs, all without requiring companies to change their underlying model or infrastructure.

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

I live in San Francisco, CA, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where I'm based, and it's a hub for AI startups and developer communities, which aligns with our B2B SaaS focus.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Downlink YC application?

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