Percival YC Application

Spring 2025Active

Percival went through Y Combinator in the Spring 2025 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: Spring 2025
Industry: B2B
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Kevin BiFounder
David ZhuFounder

What Percival does

Building an AI copilot for researchers to analyze and transform real-world data.

Percival's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Percival, Spring 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Percival

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Accelerating data analysis for research

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

We are building an AI copilot that helps researchers analyze and transform real-world data. It automates tedious data processing and makes it easier for researchers to extract insights without writing a lot of code.

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

We're based in San Francisco with remote team members. After YC, we plan to keep our operations here since it connects us to talent and customers.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our network and potential customers are. It makes sense to be close to the AI and data science scene, and YC itself is here.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Percival YC application?

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