Khoj YC Application

Summer 2023Active

Khoj went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 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 2023
Industry: Consumer
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Debanjum Singh SolankyFounder
Saba ImranFounder

What Khoj does

Khoj is an applied artificial intelligence company. We're a tiny team of hackers doing applied research and building safe, useful ai software for humans.

Khoj's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Khoj

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI for humans

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

We build applied AI software designed to help people think and work better. Our product runs AI assistants that are safe, useful, and tailored to support humans in everyday tasks.

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

We're based in San Francisco, CA, with one of us remote. After YC, the company would remain headquartered in San Francisco but continue to support distributed work.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is the best place for us to connect with talent, investors, and partners in AI. Remote work allows us flexibility and access to diverse inputs while keeping a strong local presence.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Khoj YC application?

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