Experiential Labs YC Application
San Francisco
Experiential Labs 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
- B2BInfrastructure
- Location
- San Francisco
- Team size
- 2
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2026
Founders
Kion FallahFounder/CEO
Silen NaihinFounder/CTO
What Experiential Labs does
We are building an open source gateway for AI budget holders to control model access and turn their traffic into better models that they own. We're a team that has earned an ML PhD at Georgia Tech, scaled AutoGPT to 160k GitHub stars, and led a self-driving simulation team at Waabi.
Experiential Labs's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Experiential Labs, Summer 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Experiential Labs
Open source AI gateway, turns traffic into model IP
We're building an open source gateway for organizations using large language models. It controls how models are accessed and lets users collect data from their own traffic to train and own better models. This means AI budget holders are no longer locked into someone else's model or data - they control their own IP. Our product makes it dead simple to serve, monitor, and improve AI models in production.
San Francisco, CA, and we'd stay in San Francisco after YC.
San Francisco has the best density of AI infrastructure builders and customers, and that's where we already are. It's also where a lot of the hard technical conversations happen.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Experiential Labs YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Experiential Labs's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Experiential Labs would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Experiential Labs in?
Experiential Labs was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2026 batch.
Who founded Experiential Labs?
Experiential Labs was founded by Kion Fallah, Silen Naihin.
What does Experiential Labs do?
Open source AI gateway that turns your traffic into a better model
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Experiential Labs's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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