Versable YC Application

Winter 2022Active

Versable 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: B2BRetail
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Christina SeongFounder

What Versable does

Auto parts retailers get product data from hundreds of manufacturers that is inaccurate and inconsistent, often with big gaps in key values. They currently have a team of "catalog managers" who are required to process and enhance this data line by line, resulting in a week to months long lag between receiving product data and actually being able to start generating revenue from those products. Versable leverages AI to scan the web for tens of millions of auto parts listings, and uses a fine-tuned LLM with RAG to instantly process, enhance, and transform data. With just a part number, Versable is able to generate market-ready titles, product descriptions, and specs, in any format that's needed.

Versable's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Versable

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI product description enhancement for auto parts

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

We built an AI system that takes a part number from auto parts retailers and instantly generates clean, accurate product titles, descriptions, and specs. It scans millions of listings online, then uses a fine-tuned language model combined with retrieval-augmented generation to fix inconsistent or missing data. This replaces weeks or months of manual catalog management with an instant data-ready product feed.

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

We live in San Francisco and remote locations. After YC, the company will remain based in San Francisco with a distributed team.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and has a strong tech and startup ecosystem. The auto parts industry is distributed but retailers and manufacturers are easily reachable remotely. Being here connects us to YC and potential partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Versable YC application?

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