Speechly YC Application

Winter 2022Acquired

Speechly 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: B2B
Team size: 10
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2022

Founders

Otto SoderlundFounder
Hannes HeikinheimoFounder

What Speechly does

Speechly makes it cost efficient to understand human conversations, in real-time. We do this by enabling high-accuracy spoken language understanding processed right on the end user’s device. Hundreds of millions of hours of audio data are generated every single day online. Speechly is the first solution that can affordably turn this audio into actionable insights.

Speechly's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Speechly, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Speechly

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Natural Language Understanding API for Speech

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

We build an API that understands spoken language in real time, running entirely on the user's device. This lets developers add high-accuracy speech recognition and natural language understanding without sending audio to the cloud. Our tech is built for cost efficiency and privacy, making it practical for many applications that handle conversation or voice commands.

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

We live and work in Helsinki, Finland, and plan to base the company there after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in Helsinki because that's where we found the right talent and built our product. We have the technical base and ecosystem here. YC does not require relocation, so we plan to keep building from Finland.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Speechly YC application?

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