Sieve YC Application
Sieve went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 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 2022
- Industry
- B2BInfrastructure
- Team size
- 18
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2022
Founders
Mokshith VoodarlaFounder
Abhinav AyalurFounder
What Sieve does
Sieve is the only AI research lab exclusively focused on video data. Video already makes up 80% of internet traffic and has become the dominant medium driving creativity, communication, gaming, AR/VR, and robotics. Unlocking the ability to truly model video is the key to breakthroughs across all of these domains but progress has been bottlenecked by one thing: high-quality training data. That’s where Sieve comes in. We bring together exabyte-scale video infrastructure, novel video understanding techniques, and dozens of diverse data sources to create datasets that push the frontier of video modeling. This unique combination allows us to deliver data with unmatched precision, quality, and speed which has earned the trust of frontier AI labs, Fortune 100 companies, and fast-growing generative AI startups.
Sieve's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Sieve, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Sieve
Video datasets for frontier AI
We build large-scale video datasets tailored for AI research and development. Our product combines exabyte-scale video infrastructure and unique video understanding techniques to create high-quality training data. This helps AI labs and startups model video better, speeding progress in AR/VR, robotics, and generative AI.
We live in San Francisco, and the company will remain based here after YC.
San Francisco is the center of AI research and startups, making it ideal to recruit talent and work close to our customers.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Sieve YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Sieve's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Sieve would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Sieve in?
Sieve was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2022 batch.
Who founded Sieve?
Sieve was founded by Mokshith Voodarla, Abhinav Ayalur.
What does Sieve do?
Video datasets for frontier AI
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Sieve's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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