Liva AI YC Application

Summer 2025Active

Liva AI 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: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Ashley MoFounder
Aoi OtaniFounder

What Liva AI does

Speech models trained on internet data still lack realistic results. We solve this by collecting targeted training data for model labs. We hope to create a world where AI feels more human.

Liva AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Liva AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Audio & Video Data

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

We build a platform that collects targeted audio and video training data to improve speech models. Our product helps model labs get realistic, high-quality datasets tailored to their needs so AI can sound and feel more human.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we are rooted and close to AI and tech customers and talent. Staying here keeps us close to the pulse of the industry and our users.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Liva AI YC application?

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