Mindee YC Application

Winter 2021Active

Mindee went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 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 2021
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 60
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Jonathan GrandperrinFounder

What Mindee does

Documents are everywhere. Through all industries, understanding their content is a critical step of many processes that software builders throughout the globe want to automate. We focus on the science, the AI, the deep learning to give these builders the one API they need to automate the understanding of documents and give their software human-like superpowers. Based on three pillars: - A product: a universal self-service platform where builders can train their own models - A catalog of use-cases: We push critical use cases to the limits of human performances in critical markets such as Accounting software, AP Automation, Expense Management, KYC and many others - A internal capability to make tailor-made AI: We answer to specific needs from large customers that needs a custom AI of their own to handle their use cases

Mindee's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Mindee, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Mindee

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI Document Understanding API

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

We provide a REST API that lets software developers automate extracting structured data from documents like invoices, receipts, or KYC forms. Builders can also train custom models on our platform for their specific use cases. We handle the AI and deep learning behind understanding documents, so developers don't have to.

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

We live in Paris, San Francisco, and London. The company remains distributed across these locations after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Our founders and team are in Paris, SF, and London, so the company operates across these markets. Being in both Europe and the US lets us serve global customers and hire talent in key AI and developer hubs.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Mindee YC application?

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