Percept.AI YC Application

Summer 2017Acquired

Percept.AI went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2017 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 2017
Industry: B2BOperations
Team size: 7
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2017

Founders

Joe (Zhou) ShaFounder/CEO
Deyang (Derek) ZhaoCofounder/CTO
Shuo HanFounder

What Percept.AI does

Artificial intelligence for modernized customer support. We provide end-to-end AI-powered solutions for business to connect with and support their customers. By leveraging the state of art deep learning and natural language processing technology, we make the customer support teams more intelligent and efficient.

Percept.AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Percept.AI, Summer 2017 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Percept.AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI support agent for your business that actually works

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

We built an AI-powered support agent that improves business customer service. Our product handles customer inquiries automatically using deep learning and natural language processing to make support teams faster and smarter. It's designed for customer service operations that want to handle more with less manual work.

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

We live and work in Sunnyvale, CA. After YC, we'll keep the company based in Sunnyvale to stay close to our network and talent pool.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Sunnyvale puts us near the companies that need better customer support tools and near the engineering talent we need. Staying here after YC keeps us focused and connected.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Percept.AI YC application?

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