Zumo Labs YC Application

Winter 2020Inactive

Zumo Labs went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2020 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 2020
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 7
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2020

Founders

Norman PonteFounder
Elena PonteFounder
Hugo PonteFounder
Kory StigerFounder

What Zumo Labs does

At Zumo Labs, we generate synthetic training data for computer vision models. Computer vision is the essential technology that powers the products of the future: autonomous vehicles, smart retail, robotics, smart fitness, security and vision-based analytics. These algorithms require huge amounts of training data. This data is currently collected and labeled manually; a slow, imprecise, expensive process that is rife with bias and privacy issues. Zumo Labs solves all of these problems (and more!) by creating feature rich synthetic training data in the cloud: cheaper, faster to generate and iterate on, covers all the edge cases, and has no bias or privacy issues.

Zumo Labs's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Zumo Labs, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Zumo Labs

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Synthetic data for computer vision models

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

We build a platform that generates synthetic training data for computer vision models. This data replaces or supplements real-world images, which are slow and expensive to collect and label. Our cloud-based system creates data that covers edge cases, avoids privacy problems, and eliminates biases from manual labeling.

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

We are based in San Francisco and have a remote team. After YC, we plan to keep the headquarters in San Francisco to stay close to the AI community and potential customers.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is a natural choice due to its concentration of AI startups and customers who build computer vision products. Being here helps us talk easily to users and hire talent.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Zumo Labs YC application?

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