Marft YC Application

Winter 2012Inactive

Marft went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2012 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 2012
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 3
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2011

What Marft does

Marft creates embeddable machine learning models for application developers. Users submit data by web/API, and receive optimized models implemented in a language of their choice.

Marft's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Marft, Winter 2012 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Marft

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Embeddable machine learning models for developers

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

We build a platform where application developers can submit their data via web or API and receive optimized machine learning models they can embed directly in their apps. The models come in the language the developer needs, simplifying the integration of ML into existing products.

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

We do not have a fixed location currently. After YC, we plan to base the company wherever the team can focus and build quickly, potentially relocating to the Bay Area.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We want to be close to the YC network and other startups for faster iteration and better access to resources, so moving to the Bay Area after YC makes sense.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Marft YC application?

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