expand.ai YC Application
expand.ai went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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
- Summer 2024
- Industry
- B2B
- Team size
- 2
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2024
Founders
Tim SuchanekFounder
What expand.ai does
expand.ai instantly turns any website into a type-safe API you can rely on. You can either request data from any website instantly or let expand.ai build up datasets for you. We take care of the hard parts like dealing with bot protection, scaling browser infrastructure and making sure that we only extract verified, correct information.
expand.ai's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
expand.ai, Summer 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
expand.ai
Turn any website into an API.
We built expand.ai to instantly turn any website into a type-safe API. Our product allows developers to either request real-time data from any site or automate building reliable datasets. We handle the hard parts like navigating bot protections, scaling browser infrastructure, and verifying that the data we extract is accurate, so users don't have to.
We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and the company will remain based here after YC.
We're based in San Francisco because it's where we are now, and this ecosystem gives us access to engineering talent and early customers in developer tools and infrastructure.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real expand.ai YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from expand.ai's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like expand.ai would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was expand.ai in?
expand.ai was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2024 batch.
Who founded expand.ai?
expand.ai was founded by Tim Suchanek.
What does expand.ai do?
Turn any website into an API.
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of expand.ai's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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