Zeit AI YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Zeit AI went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2024 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 2024
Industry: B2BAnalytics
Team size: 9
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Leopold von WaldthausenFounder
Marvin Christopher BornsteinFounder

What Zeit AI does

Zeit AI transforms your data bases and systems so that they can be queried using natural language. For example, the financial consultancy RISE, which depends heavily on Excel, uses Zeit AI to access and analyze expenses across their organization.

Zeit AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Zeit AI, Summer 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Zeit AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

From data to enterprise insights in just a few words.

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

We built a natural language interface that lets businesses query their existing databases and systems without writing SQL or code. Users like financial consultancies who rely heavily on Excel can ask questions in plain English and get immediate insights. Our product solves how to make complex data accessible to non-technical teams across an organization.

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

We don't list a specific location publicly. Post-YC, we plan to remain flexible given the distributed nature of enterprise data users and product development.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Our work is mostly remote to stay close to early customers and data environments without geographic constraints.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Zeit AI YC application?

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