Hub.xyz YC Application

Spring 2026Active

Hub.xyz went through Y Combinator in the Spring 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: Spring 2026
Industry: B2B
Team size: 10
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Armin KianiFounder
Tim SprecherFounder

What Hub.xyz does

Hub.xyz provides real-world training data to frontier AI labs

Hub.xyz's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Hub.xyz, Spring 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Hub.xyz

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The API for real-world training data.

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

We provide an API that supplies real-world training data to frontier AI labs. Our product aggregates and organizes diverse, high-quality datasets specifically tailored to train and validate AI and robotics models. It's designed for AI and robotics researchers who need reliable, real-world data at scale to improve their algorithms.

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

We live in Palo Alto, CA, and the company is based there.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Palo Alto is where we live and where a lot of AI innovation happens. Being here gives us direct access to customers, collaborators, and key AI labs. Staying local after YC lets us maintain these connections.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Hub.xyz YC application?

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