Lapis YC Application

Fall 2025Active

Lapis went through Y Combinator in the Fall 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: Fall 2025
Industry: B2BMarketing
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Varunram GaneshFounder
Sai SurbeheraCo Founder

What Lapis does

Lapis gives businesses the ability to generate on-brand advertising creatives using AI, and run end-end ads on ChatGPT. It uses existing assets like logos, colors, fonts, and product images, and automatically creates image ads that match a company's visual identity and voice across ChatGPT, Meta, and Google. With Lapis, businesses can rapidly iterate on creatives and A/B test at scale without being bottlenecked by design and creative capacity. Lapis is used by 1,000+ marketing teams, from big businesses like Hyundai and Tata to small businesses around the world, and supports 15+ languages including English, Spanish, and Italian.

Lapis's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Lapis, Fall 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Lapis

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI that creates and runs ads, end-end

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

We built an AI-powered platform that takes a company's existing brand assets - like logos, colors, fonts, and product images - and automatically generates advertising creatives that match their visual identity and voice. Then it runs those ads end-to-end across ChatGPT, Meta, and Google. Our product lets marketing teams rapidly iterate ad creatives and A/B test at scale without waiting on designers or creative teams.

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

We're all based in San Francisco, and the company is based here now and will remain in SF after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the talent and ecosystem we need to build and scale a B2B marketing product. Our team lives here, and being close to early customers and partners is critical for our growth.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Lapis YC application?

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