numericcal, inc.

numericcal, inc. YC Application

Summer 2018Inactive

numericcal, inc. went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2018 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 2018
Industry
B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size
3
Status
Inactive
Launched
2018

Founders

  • Shaoyi Cheng
    Shaoyi ChengFounder
  • ranko sredojevic
    ranko sredojevicFounder

What numericcal, inc. does

Turn-key solutions for anomaly detection, asset detection and tracking, and workforce management in automotive and manufacturing operations. We leverage modern Machine Learning to work with unstructured sensory data, like video and audio. By distributing the solution across the edge (on-premises) and multiple clouds (Azure + AWS/GCP) we lower the operating costs by 100x, while processing 1,000x more data than any cloud-based solution and provide better reliability and safety.

numericcal, inc.'s YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

numericcal, inc., Summer 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

  1. Founders2
  2. Company7
  3. Progress7
  4. Idea4
  5. Equity3
  6. Curious2
  7. Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

numericcal, inc.

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Distributed AI for Industrial Process Monitoring

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

We build a system that detects anomalies, tracks assets, and manages workforce in manufacturing environments using AI on unstructured data like video and audio. Our product runs both on-premises and across clouds to reduce costs and scale data processing by orders of magnitude compared to cloud-only alternatives.

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

We live in San Francisco and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in San Francisco puts us close to tech talent, cloud providers, and potential industrial partners interested in AI-driven process optimization.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real numericcal, inc. YC application?

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

What YC batch was numericcal, inc. in?

numericcal, inc. was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2018 batch.

Who founded numericcal, inc.?

numericcal, inc. was founded by Shaoyi Cheng, ranko sredojevic.

What does numericcal, inc. do?

Distributed AI for Industrial Process Monitoring and Optimization.

How do I read the full reconstructed application?

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