Piris Labs YC Application
Piris Labs went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2026 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
- Winter 2026
- Industry
- B2BInfrastructure
- Team size
- 4
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2026
Founders
Ali KhalatpourFounder & CEO
Keyvan MoghadamFounder & President
What Piris Labs does
Piris Labs offers a full-stack inference service that eliminates the AI data movement bottleneck. By pairing proprietary photonic hardware with a vertically optimized software stack, we minimize the "memory wall" associated with expensive GPUs. This allows us to deliver the same performance as traditional clusters at a fraction of the cost. Our technology improves effective FLOP utilization and reduces latency, finally making the unit economics of trillion-parameter models sustainable. Founded by a team of MIT physicists and Meta AI experts.
Piris Labs's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Piris Labs, Winter 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Piris Labs
Inference at Light Speed
We built a full-stack inference platform combining our own photonic hardware with tightly integrated software to eliminate the AI data movement bottleneck. Our solution minimizes the memory wall that slows down GPU-based inference, letting us deliver cluster-level performance at a fraction of the cost. This lets users run trillion-parameter models efficiently with lower latency and better flop utilization.
We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company will remain based here after YC.
San Francisco is where we all live and where the hardware and AI ecosystem we rely on is strongest. It's the best place to hire engineers and reach early customers in B2B AI infrastructure.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Piris Labs YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Piris Labs's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Piris Labs would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Piris Labs in?
Piris Labs was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2026 batch.
Who founded Piris Labs?
Piris Labs was founded by Ali Khalatpour, Keyvan Moghadam.
What does Piris Labs do?
Inference at Light Speed
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Piris Labs's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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