Application YC di Captain

Winter 2026Active

Captain ha partecipato a Y Combinator nel batch Winter 2026 come azienda B2B. Sotto: cosa fa l'azienda, chi l'ha fondata e la sua application a YC, ricostruita domanda per domanda nel form reale di YC.

Batch YC: Winter 2026
Settore: B2BInfrastructure
Dimensione team: 2
Stato: Active
Lanciata: 2025

Founder

Lewis PolanskyCEO/Co-Founder
Edgar BabajanyanCo-Founder and CTO

Cosa fa Captain

Captain delivers the most accurate file search engine built for AI agents. We’ll index data from the sources folks already use like S3, SharePoint, and Google Drive, and easily scale multimodal, petabyte-level content search. We’re the Snowflake for Unstructured Data. Captain tops the Open-RAG-Benchmark with over 20% higher accuracy than standard RAG pipelines. We achieve this through robust data processing techniques like embedding normalization across modalities, ensuring that representations cluster by semantic content rather than data type.

Application YC di Captain, ricostruita

Domanda per Y Combinator

Captain, batch Winter 2026. Le vere domande del form, risposte da dati pubblici.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Captain

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI agents' accurate knowledge search at scale

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

We're building Captain, a file search engine optimized for AI agents that indexes data from places like S3, SharePoint, and Google Drive. It scales to petabyte-level, multimodal content and improves retrieval accuracy by normalizing embeddings across modalities so the AI focuses on semantic meaning rather than format. This solves the problem of unreliable, noisy knowledge retrieval for AI workflows tied to unstructured data.

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 has the best access to engineering talent and AI infrastructure. It's where our users and partners are, so it makes sense for us to stay here.

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Domande Frequenti

Questa è l'application YC reale di Captain?

No. Y Combinator mantiene private le application inviate. Questa è una ricostruzione: le domande del form YC reale, a cui si è risposto usando i dati pubblici di Captain (note di lancio, background dei founder, descrizione del prodotto). Mostra come un'azienda come Captain si presenterebbe a YC, non il testo che hanno inviato.