Ixiplay YC Application

Summer 2013Inactive

Ixiplay went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2013 batch as a Consumer 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 2013
Industry: ConsumerConsumer Electronics
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2013

Founders

Bart DirkxFounder
Ruud van der AalstFounder

What Ixiplay does

IXI-Play is building a smart, Android-based robot for young children. They can play games with it; they’ll show the robot cards and it will mimic emotions on them. It sees, hears, speaks and moves. The toy itself retails for $299 but it will also come with an app store and other accessories. It’s a hardware platform that can have customizable skins for different characters so it can either build its own IP or license out IP from other toy companies.

Ixiplay's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Ixiplay, Summer 2013 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Ixiplay

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Android-based expressive robot for kids

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

We're building IXI-Play, an Android-based robot for young children that sees, hears, speaks, and moves. Kids play games with it by showing cards the robot recognizes to mimic emotions. It has customizable skins and an app store to expand functionality, making it a platform for both original and licensed characters.

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

We live and work in Sunnyvale, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC to stay close to the tech ecosystem and hardware suppliers.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Sunnyvale is where we live and work now, and it has the resources for hardware development and prototyping we need. Being here lets us move fast on the robot's physical and software design.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Ixiplay YC application?

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