Respan YC Application

Winter 2024Active

Respan went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2024 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 2024
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 15
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Andy LiFounder
Raymond HuangFounder

What Respan does

Respan (formerly Keywords AI) gives teams a unified control plane to trace and evaluate agent behavior without guesswork, automatically surface issues, and fix what breaks faster. Respan connects production observability, automated and human-in-the-loop evaluations, and an adaptive AI gateway to close the loop between detection, decision, and action - so agents improve continuously in production. Respan is trusted by 100+ AI startups and enterprise teams. Today, the platform process 1B+ logs and 2T+ tokens every month, supporting more than 6.5M end users.

Respan's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Respan, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Respan

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Self-driving observability for AI agents

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

We built a platform that unifies observability, evaluation, and adaptive control for AI agents in production. It automatically traces agent behavior, surfaces issues, and closes the loop by fixing problems faster through an AI gateway. Our product helps teams avoid guesswork when monitoring and improving deployed AI systems.

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

We currently live in San Francisco, CA. After YC, the company will remain based in San Francisco.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we are already located and it has the density of AI startups and engineering talent we need. Staying here helps us stay close to our early customers and partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Respan YC application?

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