floatingpoint

floatingpoint YC Application

Winter 2024Active

floatingpoint 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
B2B
Status
Active
Launched
2024

Founders

  • Mehul Chadda
    Mehul ChaddaCo-founder & CEO
  • Ishaan Kapoor
    Ishaan KapoorFounder
  • Akhilesh Sharma
    Akhilesh SharmaCo-Founder

What floatingpoint does

Floatingpoint is a vision data foundry. We build high-fidelity environments, evals, and supervised datasets to push the frontier of artificial visual intelligence.

floatingpoint's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

  1. Founders2
  2. Company7
  3. Progress7
  4. Idea4
  5. Equity3
  6. Curious2
  7. Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

floatingpoint

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Datasets and evals to push visual intelligence

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

We build and provide supervised datasets, evaluation frameworks, and high-fidelity environments specifically designed to develop and benchmark visual intelligence AI. Our product helps AI teams get better data and tests for training vision models, focusing on quality and domain realism that's hard to replicate.

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

We live in San Francisco now, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we are rooted and where the AI and ML ecosystem is most active. Being here keeps us close to early customers and partners working on visual intelligence.

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 floatingpoint YC application?

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

What YC batch was floatingpoint in?

floatingpoint was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2024 batch.

Who founded floatingpoint?

floatingpoint was founded by Mehul Chadda, Ishaan Kapoor, Akhilesh Sharma.

What does floatingpoint do?

Datasets and evals to push the frontier of visual intelligence.

How do I read the full reconstructed application?

Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of floatingpoint's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.

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