Lanesurf YC Application

Summer 2025Active

Lanesurf went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2025
Industry: B2B
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Pratham BansalFounder
Sarthak Singh ChauhanFounder

What Lanesurf does

Lanesurf helps freight brokers book shipments with vetted carriers at the best prices by negotiating rates across multiple calls in parallel. Our self-improving voice AI stack is built for the messy reality of logistics - noisy calls, compliance checks, constant exceptions and turns them into faster bookings at better margins. With each booking, the AI learns from aggregated, anonymized lane and pricing data. As more customers use Lanesurf, this learning compounds, driving faster bookings at the best prices and powering a voice-driven freight marketplace.

Lanesurf's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Lanesurf, Summer 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Lanesurf

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Voice AI for booking freight

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

We built a voice AI system that books shipments by talking to vetted carriers across multiple calls in parallel. It handles the messy realities of freight logistics like noisy phone lines, compliance checks, and constant exceptions. The AI learns from every booking by analyzing lane and pricing data, making future bookings faster and cheaper for brokers.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA. Post-YC, the company would remain based in San Francisco.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is a hub for AI and logistics tech talent, where we've built our network and recruited our team. It's the right ecosystem to grow Lanesurf and hire engineers familiar with voice AI and supply chain.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Lanesurf YC application?

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