OpenPipe YC Application
OpenPipe went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 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 2023
- Industry
- B2BEngineering, Product and Design
- Team size
- 2
- Status
- Acquired
- Launched
- 2023
Founders
Kyle CorbittFounder
David CorbittFounder
What OpenPipe does
OpenPipe is an SDK that abstracts away fine-tuning custom models. We capture your existing provider’s prompt-completion pairs in the background and use them to create a new model that is faster, cheaper and often more accurate than the original.
OpenPipe's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
OpenPipe, Summer 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
OpenPipe
Turn expensive prompts into cheap fine-tuned models
We built an SDK called OpenPipe that captures prompt-completion pairs from your existing AI provider in the background. Then it uses those pairs to fine-tune a custom model that runs cheaper, faster, and often more accurately than the original. It abstracts away the complexity of fine-tuning so engineering teams can easily deploy custom models without investing heavily in ML expertise.
We live in Seattle, WA, and the company is based here now. After YC, we'll remain based here.
Seattle is where we both live and can focus fully on building. We aren't relocating after YC since our work is remote-friendly, and the city offers the right balance of talent, cost, and life quality for us.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real OpenPipe YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from OpenPipe's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like OpenPipe would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was OpenPipe in?
OpenPipe was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2023 batch.
Who founded OpenPipe?
OpenPipe was founded by Kyle Corbitt, David Corbitt.
What does OpenPipe do?
Turn expensive prompts into cheap fine-tuned models
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of OpenPipe's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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