nao Labs YC Application

Spring 2025Active

nao Labs went through Y Combinator in the Spring 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: Spring 2025
Industry: B2BAnalytics
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Claire GouzeFounder
Christophe BlefariFounder

What nao Labs does

nao is an open source framework to build and deploy analytics agent. Create the context of your analytics agent with nao-core cli: data, metadata, modeling, rules, etc. Deploy a UI for anyone to chat with your agent and run analytics on your data.

nao Labs's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

nao Labs, Spring 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

nao Labs

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Open Source Analytics Agent

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

We built nao, an open source framework that lets teams create and deploy customizable analytics agents. You define the context with our nao-core CLI - data, metadata, modeling, rules - and then deploy a UI anyone can use to chat with the agent and query data. It's for companies that want tailored analytics workflows without building everything from scratch.

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

We live and work in San Francisco and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we are already based, and it offers access to engineering talent and customers in the enterprise analytics space, which fits our B2B focus.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real nao Labs YC application?

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