Markov YC Application
San Francisco
Markov went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2026 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 2026
- Industry
- B2BInfrastructure
- Location
- San Francisco
- Team size
- 2
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2026
Founders
Dev MandalFounder/CEO
Harish AshokFounder/CTO
What Markov does
Markov sells expert computer-use data to frontier labs. We’ve sold more than 33k+ hours and our open-source datasets have got over 200k+ downloads on hugging face.
Markov's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Markov, Summer 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Markov
Expert computer-use data for frontier AI labs
We collect and sell expert computer-use datasets designed for training and reinforcement learning tasks at frontier AI labs. Our product is a mix of proprietary and open-source data that helps labs train agents to use computers as well as humans can. Users download data from us, including 33,000+ hours we've directly supplied and open-source datasets that have been downloaded over 200,000 times on Hugging Face. This lets AI labs focus on models, not on wrangling large volumes of high-quality usage data.
San Francisco, CA, USA. We'll stay based here after YC.
We're in San Francisco to be close to our customers and the center of AI development. Our current and future customers are mostly here, so it's practical to stay.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Markov YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Markov's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Markov would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Markov in?
Markov was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2026 batch.
Who founded Markov?
Markov was founded by Dev Mandal, Harish Ashok.
What does Markov do?
Expert computer-use data for frontier AI labs
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Markov's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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