Shofo YC Application

Winter 2026Active

Shofo went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2026 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 2026
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Braiden DishmanFounder & CEO
Andre BragaFounder & Head of AI
Alexzendor MisraFounder & CTO

What Shofo does

We are building the world’s largest video library. We've aggregated billions of videos into a searchable index and use agents to find and label the exact datasets a lab needs on demand. If a lab needs 100K hours of cooking videos where someone is holding a pan, with reasoning annotations on top, our agents search the index, extract the matching subset, route it through our labeling pipeline, and deliver a custom dataset in days, not months.

Shofo's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Shofo, Winter 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Shofo

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The World's Largest Video Library

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

We built a searchable index of billions of videos that lets labs request custom datasets instantly. Our agents find exactly the videos they need - like hours of cooking videos with a pan in hand - and run them through our labeling pipeline to add detailed annotations. We deliver these custom datasets in days, replacing what usually takes months.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and work now. Being here puts us close to AI labs and key early users who need labeled video datasets.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Shofo YC application?

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