QualGent YC Application

Spring 2025Active

QualGent 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: 10
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Shivam AgrawalFounder
Aaron YuFounder

What QualGent does

QualGent is an AI Mobile App Quality Assurance Tester that mimics a real human, helping teams catch bugs and ship faster - without hiring more QA testers. One customer reached #3 in the Education category on the App Store by improving app quality with QualGent. Mobile bugs hurt: crashes kill ratings, broken checkouts drive churn. QualGent helps teams scale QA effortlessly and avoid Sonos-level disasters. The idea for QualGent was born from the founders’ experience leading engineering teams at Google across Android XR, Stadia, Quick Share, and foldable devices where shipping to billions of users meant constantly facing the painful trade-off between moving fast and maintaining quality. With prior research experience at Nvidia, Maryland, and Berkeley, the team saw a clear opportunity: use AI to scale QA. QualGent’s vision is to close the loop on software creation. As AI enables engineers to code 100x faster, QualGent eliminates the next bottleneck - software verification - unlocking truly scalable, end-to-end software development.

QualGent's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

QualGent

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI Mobile App Quality Assurance Tester

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

We built QualGent, an AI-powered QA tester that mimics real users to find bugs in mobile apps. It helps engineering teams catch crashes and broken flows before release, speeding up shipping without needing to hire more QA testers.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in San Francisco puts us at the center of mobile app innovation and close to customers and talent critical for growth.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real QualGent YC application?

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