Speko YC Application
San Francisco
Speko went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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
- Summer 2026
- Industry
- B2BInfrastructure
- Location
- San Francisco
- Team size
- 4
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2026
Founders
Beknazar AbdikamalovFounder/CEO
What Speko does
Speko is a router for voice models: one API key, and your voice agent runs on the speech-to-text, LLM, and text-to-speech models we measured as best for your language and use case. The measurements are public at benchmarks.speko.ai: we test new models the day they ship and re-route when the numbers change, so you rewrite nothing. We ran this bake-off by hand for four years at Hupo, shipping production voice for Morgan Stanley, Prudential, HSBC, and Grab.
Speko's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Speko, Summer 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Speko
One API, every call on the best speech model.
We're building Speko: an API that routes your voice workflows - speech-to-text, LLM, text-to-speech - through the best model for your language and use case, based on real benchmarks. We keep track of every new speech model as it ships, evaluate accuracy and performance at benchmarks.speko.ai, and re-route calls when something better comes along. You only need to integrate once. This lets product teams ship better voice AI without having to constantly re-integrate or guess which models are actually tops.
We're based in San Francisco, CA, and that's where the company will stay after YC.
San Francisco is where both voice AI companies and customers cluster, with a strong technical and founder community. Our customers, investors, and talent are here.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Speko YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Speko's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Speko would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Speko in?
Speko was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2026 batch.
Who founded Speko?
Speko was founded by Beknazar Abdikamalov.
What does Speko do?
OpenRouter for Voice AI: one API, every call on the best speech model
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Speko's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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