Webhound YC Application

Summer 2023Active

Webhound went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 batch as a Consumer 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: Consumer
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Moe KhalilFounder

What Webhound does

Webhound builds long-horizon AI research agents that scale quality with time and budget. Our agents can create either structured datasets or fully cited research reports.

Webhound's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Webhound

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Long-horizon research agents

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

We build AI research agents designed to handle long-horizon projects that improve in quality as they run longer or with more budget. They generate structured datasets or fully cited research reports for users who need deep, reliable insights. Our goal is to automate complex research that usually takes teams weeks to do manually.

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

We live in San Francisco, and the company is based here and will be after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the best access to AI talent and early adopters interested in generative AI research tools. Being here makes recruiting and partnerships simpler.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Webhound YC application?

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