Riveter YC Application

Fall 2024Active

Riveter went through Y Combinator in the Fall 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: Fall 2024
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Abigail GrillsCEO & Co-founder

What Riveter does

Riveter fully automates web data extraction, end to end. With a single API, agents can search, scrape, and structure data from the web. Customers like Snapchat and OpenAI use us to enrich datasets using Riveter's AI search agents that combine data from the web with third party or internal data. Their AI agents, custom scrapers, and integrations pack the power of browser use and automation for search, at a cost that allows for scale. You can even create a custom data API for repeated searches live in your app or internal databases. Perplexity and ChatGPT are great for single questions, but they can’t handle large amounts of data at once. And they’re working with a single agent and context window instead of one in every cell. And Riveter’s web browsing can go further - even reading PDFs and images that may contain answers. Most teams still spend hours (or hire UpWorkers/contractors) to manually copy product specs, check competitor pricing, pull custom KYB/KYC data to assess customer risk, or scrape filings. Or they spend months building web scrapers, and when that still doesn't work, they come to Riveter. Our founding team (Cody Watters - CTO, Abby Grills, CEO) brings deep product and engineering expertise from to YC-backed companies Gusto, Retool, and Middesk.

Riveter's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Riveter, Fall 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Riveter

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Turn the web into structured data

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

We built Riveter to fully automate extracting structured data from the web through a single API. Our AI search agents combine scraping, searching, and structuring data end to end, letting teams add live, custom data APIs into their apps or databases. We handle everything from web pages to PDFs and images to let companies scale data enrichment without hiring contractors or building scrapers from scratch.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we're rooted, with easy access to our early customers and engineering talent. Staying here helps us move fast.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Riveter YC application?

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