Humanloop YC Application

Summer 2020Acquired

Humanloop went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2020 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 2020
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 14
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2020

Founders

Raza HabibFounder
Jordan BurgessFounder
Peter HayesFounder

What Humanloop does

Humanloop is the LLM evals platform for enterprises. Teams at Gusto, Vanta and Duolingo use Humanloop to ship reliable AI products. We enable you to adopt best practices for prompt management, evaluation and observability.

Humanloop's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Humanloop, Summer 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Humanloop

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The LLM evals platform for enterprises

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

We make a platform that helps enterprise teams evaluate and manage large language models reliably. Our product focuses on prompt management, evaluation, and observability to let companies ship AI features confidently. Teams at companies like Gusto, Vanta, and Duolingo use Humanloop to make their AI deployments safer and more predictable.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA and the company is based here. After YC we would continue to be based in San Francisco.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where the team lives and where a lot of AI startups and enterprise customers are located. Being here helps us stay close to the AI community and our users.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Humanloop YC application?

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