Lyrebird YC Application

Summer 2017Acquired

Lyrebird went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2017 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 2017
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 13
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2017

Founders

Alexandre de BrébissonFounder/CEO
Kundan KumarFounder
Jose SoteloFounder

What Lyrebird does

Lyrebird offers a new generation of speech synthesis technologies for developers. It is the result of several months of research conducted at the MILA lab at University of Montréal.

Lyrebird's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Lyrebird, Summer 2017 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Lyrebird

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Our tech speaks for itself.

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

We build speech synthesis software that lets developers create realistic digital voices. Our technology started as research at MILA lab and now runs in an API developers use to add synthetic speech to their apps.

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

We live in Montreal, QC, Canada and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Montreal is where we did the research and built the core tech. The talent pool here and our connections at MILA make this the best place to keep building Lyrebird.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Lyrebird YC application?

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