Kashikoi YC Application

Spring 2025Active

Kashikoi went through Y Combinator in the Spring 2025 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 2025
Industry: B2B
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Aaksha MeghawatFounder

What Kashikoi does

Kashikoi is a simulation engine to benchmark AI agents. We generate CPU friendly world models that autonomously interview agents and generate deep behavioral assessments. We built a similar technology at Moveworks which was used to ship 250+ enterprise agents to customers daily.

Kashikoi's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Kashikoi, Spring 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Kashikoi

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Simulation engine to benchmark AI agents

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

We are building a simulation engine that creates CPU-efficient world models to autonomously interview AI agents and produce detailed behavioral assessments. This helps companies benchmark and improve their AI products. Our approach stems from technology we built at Moveworks that helped ship over 250 enterprise agents daily.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and it has access to engineering talent, potential customers, and a vibrant AI ecosystem relevant to our product.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Kashikoi YC application?

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