Lotas YC Application

Summer 2025Active

Lotas 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: B2BAnalytics
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Jorge GuerraFounder
William NickolsFounder

What Lotas does

For our first product, we built Rao: an AI coding assistant into RStudio - an IDE used by up to 5 million data scientists and statisticians who use the R programming language to analyze data. Rao could read, write, and edit code while understanding the user's context (codebase and environmental variables).

Lotas's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Lotas

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI coding assistant for R data scientists

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

We built Rao, an AI coding assistant integrated into RStudio. It helps data scientists who use R by reading, writing, and editing code while understanding the entire coding context, including codebase and environmental variables. This makes data analysis faster and reduces errors for users in a complex, specialized environment.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and work; it has the right network and talent pool for what we're building, especially in AI and developer tools.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Lotas YC application?

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