Mindori YC Application
Mindori went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2016 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 2016
- Industry
- B2BRetail
- Team size
- 1
- Status
- Inactive
- Launched
- 2016
Founders
Chris LengerichFounder/CEO
What Mindori does
Mindori is the accurate way to search your app by voice for e-commerce companies. Build magical conversational search for your app in minutes, with no learning curve. "What about shirts that I can wear at a wedding?". Search over concepts that you may not have thought to index in your database. "Find a green shirt" - "What about in red?". Make the experience magical for users through context. Was it "Koffee Kult" or "coffee cult"? Customize speech recognition models for your product catalog and customer queries. Get started in minutes. Improving the model requires only minutes per day, not hours. Track user preferences and deliver customized suggestions based on their buying behavior and patterns. Export your generated models to popular assistant or chatbot frameworks automatically.
Mindori's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Mindori, Summer 2016 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Mindori
Voice search for e-commerce apps
We build a white-label voice search product that e-commerce apps can integrate into their shopping experience. Our product lets users search using natural, conversational speech over product catalogs. It handles complex queries like "shirts for a wedding" or follow-ups like "what about in red?" by maintaining context, and it customizes speech models specifically for each retailer's catalog and common customer queries to improve accuracy. The system is easy to integrate and update, with models that improve from only minutes of daily tuning. Mindori also exports models to popular assistants or chatbot frameworks so companies can extend voice search beyond the app itself.
I live in Palo Alto, CA and Mindori is based here.
Being in Palo Alto places me in the middle of the e-commerce and AI startup ecosystem. It gives access to potential customers, partners, and relevant engineering talent all in a small area.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Mindori YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Mindori's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Mindori would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Mindori in?
Mindori was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2016 batch.
Who founded Mindori?
Mindori was founded by Chris Lengerich.
What does Mindori do?
Mindori builds white-label voice search for e-commerce apps.
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Mindori's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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