Nexa Labs YC Application

Summer 2025Acquired

Nexa Labs went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2025 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 2025
Industry: IndustrialsAgriculture
Team size: 3
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2025

Founders

Zarif AzherFounder
Kenneth ChanFounder

What Nexa Labs does

Nexa is developing the solution for cattle monitoring, leveraging implantable microchips that collect more comprehensive biometrics than anything else on the market. Our accompanying AI-driven animal health engine empowers farmers with early disease detection, reproductive insights, GPS tracking, and more. We're saving farmers time and money while collecting the world's largest cattle health dataset. We believe that cattle farming should be a science, not an art - this will secure the world's food supply and increase economic output that billions of people depend on.

Nexa Labs's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Nexa Labs

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Implantable microchips and AI for cattle

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

We build implantable microchips for cattle that collect detailed biometrics beyond what's available today. Our AI-driven platform analyzes that data to give farmers early disease detection, reproductive health insights, and GPS tracking. This helps farmers manage herds scientifically to reduce losses and improve productivity.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are in San Francisco because of access to talent, our technical backgrounds, and proximity to agricultural technology investors even though our customers are primarily ranchers and farmers elsewhere.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Nexa Labs YC application?

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