SBX Robotics YC Application

Winter 2021Inactive

SBX Robotics went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 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 2021
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 5
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2021

Founders

Ian DewanckerFounder
Artem AvdacevFounder
Joshua KuntzFounder

What SBX Robotics does

SBX Robotics generates synthetic data that teaches robots to see. We use simulation software to create training data 10x faster and cheaper than annotation services or in-house teams. Instead of being blocked on data, our clients send 25 images from their robot’s camera, and receive 25,000 perfectly labeled synthetic training images. SBX data is ready to be used by deep learning computer vision models.

SBX Robotics's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

SBX Robotics, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

SBX Robotics

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Synthetic data for better vision.

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

We build a platform that turns a handful of real images from a robot's camera into tens of thousands of synthetic, perfectly labeled training images. This synthetic data trains robots to see better by improving their computer vision models. Our software creates these datasets faster and cheaper than manual annotation or in-house efforts.

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

We live in Toronto, Canada, and the company would remain based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose Toronto because that's where the team is based, and it's a hub for robotics and AI talent that we rely on.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real SBX Robotics YC application?

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