NuMind YC Application

Summer 2022Active

NuMind went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2022 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 2022
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 6
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Etienne BernardFounder
Samuel BernardFounder

What NuMind does

NuMind is a tool for data scientists, data analysts, but also software engineers to create custom NLP models. For example, a recruiting company uses NuMind to find which job offers best match a given resume. Etienne (CEO) was head of Machine Learning at Wolfram Research, and Samuel (CTO) co-founded Make.org (8M users). NuMind originated from our own frustration when developing NLP models. Leveraging large language models similar to GPT-3, NuMind allows to complete NLP projects at least 10x faster than before. We launched a private beta August 2 and had 9 paying customers one month later.

NuMind's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

NuMind, Summer 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

NuMind

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Create custom NLP models

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

We build a tool for data scientists, analysts, and software engineers to build custom NLP models faster. Users can finish NLP projects 10x faster by using NuMind's platform, which uses large language models similar to GPT-3. For example, a recruiting company uses it to find the best job offer matching a resume.

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

We live in Cambridge, MA, and the company is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We live and work here. It's a strong tech hub and convenient for us.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real NuMind YC application?

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