Hyper YC Application

Spring 2026Active

Hyper 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: B2BProductivity
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Kanyes Thaker
Shalin Shah

What Hyper does

Hyper is the company brain that "just works" for AI-first teams. Hyper silently learns from every update in every tool your team uses -- Notion docs, Claude Code questions, emails, LinkedIn DMs, Cursor sessions, etc. Our agent-driven algorithms update and clean all that information into real-time knowledge that is shared across your entire team. That knowledge is quietly infused into all your existing AI tools on every chat turn, so your whole company gets smarter permanently.

Hyper's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Hyper

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The Self-Driving Company Brain

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

We built Hyper, an AI system that silently learns from every update across a team's tools - Notion, emails, LinkedIn DMs, coding sessions, and more. It continually cleans and updates that info into a single, real-time knowledge base that everyone on the team can tap into automatically within their existing AI tools. It makes the whole company smarter without extra work.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and Hyper would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where our early users and network are. Staying here lets us stay close to AI and startup resources and easily meet customers and talent.

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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Hyper YC application?

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