Plasticity YC Application

Summer 2017Acquired

Plasticity 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: B2BProductivity
Team size: 2
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2017

Founders

Ajay PatelFounder
Alex SandsFounder

What Plasticity does

Plasticity builds APIs that help developers create human-like natural language interfaces. We believe in a future where computers can actually understand language and communicate.

Plasticity's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Plasticity

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Natural language processing APIs for developers

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

We build APIs that let developers create natural language interfaces that behave more like human conversation. Our product processes and understands language so apps can respond more naturally, saving teams from building complex NLP models themselves.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and would stay based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the talent and customers we need for an AI and developer-focused product. Being here keeps us close to users and industry network.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Plasticity YC application?

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