Shiraz AI YC Application

Summer 2026Active

San Francisco

Shiraz AI went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2026 batch as a Industrials 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 2026
Industry: IndustrialsManufacturing and Robotics
Location: San Francisco
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Navid AghasadeghiFounder/CEO
Mojtaba MozaffarFounder/CTO

What Shiraz AI does

We deploy robots that learn new tasks from a single human demonstration in the factory. We're starting in contract manufacturing, where lines change every week and both traditional automation and today's VLAs fall over. Our founding team has 20+ years of experience in robotics. Navid was part of the core team that productized Spot at Boston Dynamics and led manipulation projects there. Before that, he was at Rethink Robotics. Mojtaba led whole-body control and manipulation efforts at Amazon Robotics and was a Research Assistant Professor at Northwestern University.

Shiraz AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Shiraz AI, Summer 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Shiraz AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Robots that learn new tasks from a single demo

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

We're building factory robots that can learn new tasks from a single human demonstration. Our robots use generative AI to watch a worker complete a process, then replicate it on the line - no coding or retraining required. This lets contract manufacturers reconfigure their lines every week without expensive integration or downtime. Our focus is on automating real factory tasks that are too variable for current automation or scripted solutions.

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

San Francisco, CA, USA. We will stay based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where the robotics talent and our customers are. Manufacturing innovation is happening here, and we are close to both technical people and early customers.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Shiraz AI YC application?

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