ROSS Intelligence YC Application

Summer 2015Inactive

ROSS Intelligence went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2015 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 2015
Industry: B2BLegal
Team size: 30
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2015

Founders

Andrew ArrudaFounder/CEO
Pargles Dall`OglioFounder
Jimoh OvbiageleFounder

What ROSS Intelligence does

Founded by two computer scientists and an attorney, our mission is to develop technologies that increase access to legal services around the world. We are going after the $8B legal research market with our AI-powered legal research platform that allows lawyers to research in 80% less time and find cases they would have otherwise missed. Today, we are helping lawyers and law firms, including some of the world's largest, offer better and more affordable service to clients. Website: Twitter: @rossintel

ROSS Intelligence's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

ROSS Intelligence, Summer 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

ROSS Intelligence

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-powered legal research platform

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

We built ROSS, an AI platform that reads legal documents, answers lawyer questions, and finds relevant cases quickly. It cuts down legal research time by around 80% and surfaces cases lawyers might otherwise miss, helping law firms serve clients better and cheaper.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and the company will stay based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where the AI talent, legal-tech customers, and investor community we need are concentrated. It gives us the network and resources to build and sell effectively.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real ROSS Intelligence YC application?

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