kapa.ai YC Application

Summer 2023Active

kapa.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: B2BProductivity
Team size: 22
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Emil SoerensenFounder
Finn BauerFounder

What kapa.ai does

kapa.ai makes it easy for technical companies to build AI support and onboarding bots for their users. Teams at +150 leading startups and enterprises incl. OpenAI, Mixpanel, Mapbox, Docker, Next.js and Prisma use kapa to level up their developer experience and reduce support. We enable companies to use their existing technical knowledge sources incl. docs, tutorials, chat logs, and GitHub issues to generate AI bots that answers developer questions automatically. More than 750k developers have access to kapa.ai via website widgets, Slack/Discord bots, API integrations, or via Zendesk.

kapa.ai's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

kapa.ai, Summer 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

kapa.ai

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The fastest way to build AI assistants on technical content

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

We build an AI platform that lets technical companies create AI support and onboarding bots using their existing docs, tutorials, chat logs, and GitHub issues. These AI assistants answer developer questions automatically and integrate via widgets, Slack/Discord bots, APIs, or Zendesk to help reduce support load and improve developer experience.

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

We live and work fully remote, and the company will remain remote after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Our users and team are distributed globally. Being fully remote lets us hire top technical talent and work efficiently without relocating.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real kapa.ai YC application?

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