Zettascale YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Zettascale went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2024 batch as a Industrials 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: Industrials
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Elias AlmqvistFounder/CEO
Prithvi RajFounder

What Zettascale does

Zetta builds energy-efficient chips ("XPUs") for AI to accelerate discovery. Our XPUs are highly programmable, letting them optimize the dataflow for each model and making them faster and far more efficient than anything on the market today, saving data centers billions in energy and cooling costs.

Zettascale's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Zettascale

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Energy efficient chips for AI

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

We build energy-efficient AI chips called XPUs. These chips optimize dataflow specific to each AI model, making training and inference faster and more energy efficient than existing hardware. Our customers are data centers and AI developers who want to reduce their energy and cooling costs significantly.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we are based now because it has the technical talent and proximity to AI and hardware customers. Staying here helps us recruit and work closely with early users.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Zettascale YC application?

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