Zep AI YC Application

Winter 2024Active

Zep AI went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2024
Industry: B2B
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Daniel ChalefFounder

What Zep AI does

Zep assembles the right context from chat history, business data, and user behavior so agents are personalized, accurate, and fast. Our open source project Graphiti hit 20k GitHub stars in under 12 months. Sub-200ms retrieval, SOC 2 Type 2/HIPAA certified, used by teams from startups to Fortune 500s.

Zep AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Zep AI, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Zep AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Agent Context Is Hard. We Fixed It.

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

We built Zep to pull context from chat history, business data, and user behavior into one system so agents - whether human customer service reps or AI assistants - can respond accurately and quickly. Our open source Graphiti engine powers sub-200ms context retrieval for private, compliant, and personalized conversations at scale.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, CA. After YC, the company will continue to be based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team is located and where much of the enterprise AI and developer communities are. Staying here keeps us close to customers and talent.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Zep AI YC application?

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