Modelence YC Application

Summer 2025Active

Modelence went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2025 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 2025
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Aram ShatakhtsyanCo-Founder & CEO
Eduard PiliposyanCo-Founder & CTO

What Modelence does

You built the demo in a weekend. Now you need auth, a prod-grade database, real-time events, AI observability, cron jobs, email, monitoring… and you needed them yesterday. We spent a decade at our previous startup, building a platform while scaling to millions of users and customers like Meta & Netflix. Now we put that into an open-source framework, so others wouldn’t have to do the same from scratch. Modelence is a batteries-included production ready platform for agentic development that abstracts away boilerplate so you can just focus on building your product logic and deploy it to production without worrying about infrastructure. Shipping production apps is much harder than building a prototype that runs locally and 95% of all production apps share the same building blocks. We did a massive amount of work on our previous platforms that was not specific to our product, and we’ve created Modelence to abstract that away: - Authentication - Database setup - Hosting / CDN - AI integration (LLM observability, prompts) - Real-time events - Cron jobs - Email service - Monitoring - Analytics - Admin dashboards Andrej Karpathy recently posted about this same exact problem: and explained it further in his YC AI Startup School talk:

Modelence's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Modelence, Summer 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Modelence

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Full-stack platform for agentic development

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

Modelence is a batteries-included platform that bundles everything you need to ship production apps fast. We handle auth, database setup, hosting, real-time events, AI observability, cron jobs, email, monitoring, analytics, and admin dashboards so developers can focus on building product logic without infrastructure overhead.

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

We live and are based in San Francisco, CA, USA, with some remote team members. After YC, the company remains SF-based with a remote-friendly setup.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we're located and connected to the startup ecosystem. We stay remote-friendly to access talent and flexibility but keep SF as our base for networking and YC interactions.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Modelence YC application?

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