OctaPulse

Aplicación YC de OctaPulse

Winter 2026Active

OctaPulse pasó por Y Combinator en el batch Winter 2026 como una empresa de Industrials. Abajo: qué hace la empresa, quién la fundó y su aplicación a YC, reconstruida pregunta por pregunta en el formulario real de YC.

Batch YC
Winter 2026
Industria
IndustrialsClimate
Tamaño del equipo
2
Estado
Active
Lanzado
2025

Fundadores

  • Paul Grech
    Paul GrechFounder
  • Rohan Singh
    Rohan SinghFounder

Lo que hace OctaPulse

OctaPulse uses AI vision to automate hatchery QA for fish farms, starting with broodstock phenotyping and juvenile deformity inspection. We cut inspection time from about 5 minutes to under 30 seconds per fish, with more than 90 percent accuracy, so farms advance only high quality fish and waste less feed and labor. Our goal is to bring automation across the entire fish production lifecycle for the $300B aquaculture industry. Aquaculture is the fastest growing food sector, and has already surpassed commercial fishing for production of seafood. Yet two of the most critical QA and QC steps in fish production are still done by hand: phenotyping and deformity inspection. These processes are slow, error prone, and despised by technicians but vital for the success of the farm, so much so that farms spend >$200K a year on trained technicians and geneticists to operate. We’ve built an AI vision platform for vertically integrated finfish farms that drops into existing workflows starting in the hatchery, uses off the shelf cameras, standardizes these QA steps, and creates a proprietary multi species dataset that becomes the brain for future autonomous aquafarms. Phenotyping is the start, but the platform is designed to be a drop in solution that can easily expand into feeding, health monitoring, and processing so we can solve production problems across the lifecycle. We signed a 6-figure paid pilot with the largest trout producer in the United States, are deploying into 2 more farms early 2026, and trained models above 90 percent accuracy while cutting inspection time from 5 minutes to under 30 seconds. Each deployment adds labeled images to our dataset and improves cross species generalization.

Aplicación YC de OctaPulse, reconstruida

Solicitud de Y Combinator

OctaPulse, batch Winter 2026. Las preguntas reales del formulario, respondidas con datos públicos.

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Company

Company name

OctaPulse

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

CV and robotics to automate quality inspection in fish farms

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

We built an AI vision platform that automates quality inspection in fish farms, starting with broodstock phenotyping and deformity checks for juveniles. Our system uses off-the-shelf cameras to cut inspection times from minutes to under 30 seconds per fish, while maintaining over 90% accuracy. It drops into existing hatchery workflows and creates a growing dataset to improve across species, with plans to expand into feeding and health monitoring across the aquaculture lifecycle.

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

N/A

Explain your decision regarding location.

N/A

21 respuestas más en la aplicación completa

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Preguntas Frecuentes

¿Es esta la aplicación YC real de OctaPulse?

No. Y Combinator mantiene privadas las aplicaciones enviadas. Esta es una reconstrucción: las preguntas reales del formulario de YC, respondidas a partir de los datos públicos de OctaPulse (notas de lanzamiento, antecedentes de fundadores, descripción del producto). Muestra cómo una empresa como OctaPulse se presentaría a YC, no el texto que enviaron.

¿En qué batch de YC estuvo OctaPulse?

OctaPulse formó parte del batch Winter 2026 de Y Combinator.

¿Quién fundó OctaPulse?

OctaPulse fue fundado por Paul Grech, Rohan Singh.

¿A qué se dedica OctaPulse?

CV and robotics to automate quality inspection in fish farms

¿Cómo leo la aplicación completa reconstruida?

Crea una cuenta gratuita de Round Funded. La versión completa de 26 respuestas de la aplicación de OctaPulse, y de cada otro batch de YC, está en YC Insights.

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