Mineflow YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Mineflow went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2024 batch as a Industrials 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 2024
Industry: Industrials
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Ryan GogginsFounder

What Mineflow does

Mineflow is an AI platform for mineral exploration. We generate predictions for mineral deposit shapes and locations, empowering mining companies from initial exploration to advanced feasibility studies. Geologists need to know precisely where their deposits are because drilling is expensive. In early trials with a lithium mining company, we found that Mineflow predicts the shape of hard rock lithium deposits more than an order of magnitude more accurately than our competitors. Ryan received a BS in Artificial Intelligence from Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science where he helped teach both the grad-level Deep Learning course and the grad-level Search Engines course. He built ML models at Google in the Display Ads optimization org for 2 years and launched products that generated ~125m USD in ARR.

Mineflow's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Mineflow, Summer 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Mineflow

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Mineflow predicts mineral deposit shape and location

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

We build an AI platform that predicts where mineral deposits are underground and what shape they take. Mining companies use our predictions to decide where to drill, saving them millions since drilling is expensive and inaccurate models waste resources. Early trials with a lithium mining company show our predictions are over an order of magnitude more accurate than competitors.

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

We live and are based in San Francisco, CA.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco gives us access to tech talent, investors, and relevant AI research communities critical to building and scaling our product.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Mineflow YC application?

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