Hegel AI YC Application

Summer 2023Active

Hegel AI went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 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 2023
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Kevin TseFounder

What Hegel AI does

We build tools for developing applications with generative AI models. Whether you are using LLMs, vector databases, and text-to-image models like Stable Diffusion, our tools help you find the right model, prompt, configuration and consistently monitor their behaviors in production. --- **PromptTools**: the first open-source, developer-focused SDK for experimenting with and evaluating prompts, models, and vector databases. You can try the repo here: If you're building with LLMs and struggling with evaluation, reach out and we can help.

Hegel AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Hegel AI, Summer 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Hegel AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Open source tools for generative AI apps

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

We build open-source developer tools to work with generative AI models. Our main product, PromptTools, helps developers experiment with and evaluate prompts, models like LLMs, vector databases, and image generation models such as Stable Diffusion. It fixes the problem of figuring out which model or prompt setup works best and monitoring these in production.

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

We live in New York City and plan to base the company here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in NYC because that's where we live and work today, and it has a growing AI and tech community we want to stay connected to.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Hegel AI YC application?

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