Lumina YC Application

Winter 2022Active

Lumina went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 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 2022
Industry: B2BOperations
Team size: 12
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Aswin AndrisonFounder

What Lumina does

🚀 Lumina💧 (YC W22) is a fast growing job platform in Southeast Asia with 1.5 million workers, helping 30k companies recruit and optimize at scale. 🤖 We are now expanding globally with Lumibot, a bespoke AI+human-powered automation service. We help companies automate mundane, repetitive processes with AI and human-in-the-loop catering for various use cases in data ops and complex workflows. This allows your business to focus on your core and grow faster, better and cheaper. 👌Our AI-powered automation start with USD 13/hour, supplemented with human-in-the-loop at USD 2-6/hour. Our services are managed based on SLAs by dedicated service managers under a prepaid credit system without arduous contracts for optimum flexibility. No minimum commitment with fully-refundable deposit from as low as USD 500^. 🛠️ We currently support the following use cases: 1) operations support 2) revenue operations support 3) web and social media management 4) email management 5) content moderation 6) AI training and verification 7) AI text humanization 8) custom process automation... with more to come... 👥️️ Lumibot (by Lumina) is backed by Y-Combinator, Monk's Hill Ventures, Alpha JWC, Goodwater Capital, SWC Global and January Capital. More information about us: * 💬 WA: * 📅 CAL: * 🌐 WEB: ^ Reach out to us on special deals ONLY for YC companies!

Lumina's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Lumina, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Lumina

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI+human job automation on a large job community

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

We built Lumibot, an AI and human-in-the-loop automation platform that helps companies outsource repetitive and complex workflow tasks, starting from operations support to content moderation and AI training verification. Our users are mainly businesses in Southeast Asia initially, leveraging our job community of 1.5M workers to deliver affordable, managed automation services without long contracts.

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

We are currently based in Singapore, operating remotely as well. After YC, we expect to maintain Singapore as our base while expanding globally with Lumibot.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Singapore is where we started with the largest active user base - 1.5 million workers on our job community platform - and a strong network to scale our AI+human automation services globally. It offers a strategic position and talent pool aligned with our growth.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Lumina YC application?

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