Sherpa Labs YC Application

Winter 2025Active

Sherpa Labs went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2025
Industry: B2B
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Jeffrey ChiuFounder
Justin JiangFounder

What Sherpa Labs does

Sherpa Labs is building an agentic data team that automates modeling, operations, and discovery via a swarm of agents. Their initial product is a data catalog that enables developers and AI agents to quickly locate the right data sources, effortlessly trace data lineage, and understand messy data lakes - similar to Glean but for enterprise data systems.

Sherpa Labs's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Sherpa Labs, Winter 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Sherpa Labs

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The AI Data Team

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

We're building an agentic data team that uses a swarm of automated agents to handle data modeling, operations, and discovery tasks. Our first product is a data catalog that helps developers and AI agents find the right data sources quickly, trace data lineage effortlessly, and understand complex, messy enterprise data lakes. It's like Glean but specifically tailored for enterprise data systems where discovery and lineage are hard problems.

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

We're based in New York City now, and we'll stay here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We live where the data teams are. New York has a strong concentration of enterprises with complicated data infrastructure, and it's where we want to be to work closely with early customers and understand their needs.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Sherpa Labs YC application?

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