Vango AI YC Application

Summer 2023Inactive

Vango AI went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 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 2023
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2023

Founders

Eshaan MoorjaniFounder
Rajen DeyFounder

What Vango AI does

We built Vango excited by the future where generative visual AI models like stable diffusion dramatically reduce the barrier to create content. While spending 8 months building products for creatives, we found ourselves building hacky tools to address many of frustrations we had with visual AI. So we decided to build the devtool we needed: Vango is a flexible evaluation platform that makes it 10x improve visual models. Developers using visual AI models at scale use Vango to learn quantitative ways to improve their model, saving them ~10 hours per week. Major companies building visual products have already begun integrating diffusion models, including Adobe, Disney, Activision Blizzard, Canva, and Snap. By 2025, it is estimated that 1 billion images per day will be AI-generated.

Vango AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Vango AI, Summer 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Vango AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Platform to improve visual AI models 10x faster

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

We built Vango as a developer platform that helps teams using generative visual AI models, like stable diffusion, improve those models much faster and with clear quantitative results. The product provides a flexible evaluation system so developers can quickly identify how to improve output quality and save time. Instead of hacking together tools, Vango standardizes these workflows, letting teams save around 10 hours a week on model evaluation and iteration.

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

We live in Berkeley and San Francisco, CA, and after YC the company would be based in the Bay Area, likely San Francisco.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're in the Bay Area because it's where most AI and visual product teams are, and it's important to be close to early users and potential partners in visual AI development.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Vango AI YC application?

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