Playment YC Application

Winter 2017Acquired

Playment went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2017
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 50
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2016

Founders

Siddharth MallFounder/| CEO
Akshay LalCo-Founder & Head of Product

What Playment does

"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination." Playment is a fully managed data labeling platform generating training data for computer vision models at scale. We empower companies in the Autonomous Vehicle, Drones, Mapping, and similar spaces with high precision annotation services - No matter how complex. We’re helping companies and research institutions like Drive AI, Starsky Robotics, CYNGN, and UIUC focus on their core areas of development. Our platform is powered by a trained workforce of 300,000+ users and managed by our human intelligence experts who build your tasks and deliver results with assured quality. Support Annotation types: Bounding Boxes, Cuboids, Polygons, and Polylines, Point annotations, Segmentation(coming soon) for both image and video data types. Interested to hear more? please check out Use Cases we worked on: Autonomous vehicles, drones, satellite imagery, precision agriculture, Retail / eCommerce, sports analytics

Playment's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Playment, Winter 2017 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Playment

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Mechanical Turk for enterprises.

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

We build a fully managed data labeling platform that generates training data for computer vision models at scale. Our platform helps companies building autonomous vehicles, drones, and mapping technology get high-precision annotations for images and videos, handling complex tasks like bounding boxes, cuboids, and polygons.

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

We live in Bengaluru, India, and the company is based here. After YC, we would remain based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Bengaluru has the technical talent and access to a large workforce that powers the platform. It's where we built the product and where our team and growing user base are located.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Playment YC application?

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