Lopus YC Application

Winter 2025Active

Lopus went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2025
Industry: B2BAnalytics
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Aamish Ahmad BegFounder
Danylo BorodchukFounder

What Lopus does

Pointing an AI at all your data is a recipe for disaster - it will confidently lie, hallucinate, and drive your business into the ground. What if you could trust your AI the way you trust a calculator? That's Lopus. We build a self-healing semantic layer that captures your business logic. Including every metric, every definition, every edge case. Defined once, and trusted everywhere. No SQL. No dashboards. No waiting on the data team.

Lopus's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Lopus, Winter 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Lopus

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Growth Operations Data Platform

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

We build a self-healing semantic layer that captures a company's business logic: every metric, definition, and edge case. It sits on top of all their data sources to provide a single source of truth for growth and operations teams. Users get trusted metrics everywhere - no SQL, no dashboards, no data team bottlenecks. It prevents AI hallucinations and wrong answers by tightly encoding business logic in one place.

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

We currently live in San Francisco, CA, and the company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We live in San Francisco because that is where our network and data-driven B2B customers are. Being close to other startups and investors helps us move faster.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Lopus YC application?

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