Uplift AI YC Application

Summer 2025Active

Uplift AI went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2025 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 2025
Industry: B2B
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Hammad MalikFounder
Zaid QureshiFounder

What Uplift AI does

We build Voice Models for regional languages (like Urdu, Bengali, Greek etc) and make them available through simple APIs and SDKs. Developers use us to create Voice-first digital experiences (eg. Voice eCommerce, Voice Banking, Voice AI Tutors etc). We gather our own data, develop our own labelling tools, train our own models, and design our own voice infra. This fully integrated approach enables us to offer the best models and the best developer experience for regional languages. --- People who would previously never use certain digital services (like online ordering), actually use the service when they are given an intuitive Voice based interface. We believe that Voice Interfaces will onboard 100s of millions of new users onto digital services; and double the addressable market for technology companies. Uplift AI will provide the best models to create these Voice Interfaces for 60% of the world's population that only speaks their regional language and represents 42 trillion dollars in GDP.

Uplift AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Uplift AI, Summer 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Uplift AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Voice models for regional languages

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

We build foundational voice models tailored for regional languages like Urdu, Bengali, and Greek. Our product offers developers easy-to-integrate APIs and SDKs to add voice interfaces into their apps - enabling voice-first experiences in ecommerce, banking, and education. We handle data collection, labeling, model training, and voice infrastructure ourselves to deliver superior accuracy and developer experience for underserved languages.

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

We live in San Francisco and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco offers the best access to technical talent, investors, and partners in AI, which is critical for building voice AI infrastructure at scale for regional languages.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Uplift AI YC application?

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