Application YC di Zoa Research
Zoa Research ha partecipato a Y Combinator nel batch Summer 2024 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
- Summer 2024
- Settore
- B2B
- Dimensione team
- 5
- Stato
- Active
- Lanciata
- 2024
Founder
Greg VolynskyFounder
Sam DamashekFounder
Cosa fa Zoa Research
Historically, quantitative models are domain specific. Brilliant people spend their best years testing features, tuning hyperparameters, and iterating architectures within a narrow domain. But scale is the panacea: large models will find patterns people, and specialized models, could not. Forecasting generalizes. Zoa trains cross-domain event forecasting engines. *Automating Iteration* LLMs - embedded in multi-agent optimization loops and evaluated against fixed policies - can automate the build-test-improve modeling cycle. Think AlphaEvolve for forecasting problems. *Sample-Efficient General Models* Today’s forecasting models are narrowly crafted with deep human priors. But larger models will outperform state-of-the-art specialized models. Unlike existing event models, our models leverage data from across contexts and rely less on human intuition. And compared to LLMs, our models are built with more inductive priors and rely more heavily on inference-time compute - improving sample efficiency. *Why It Matters* In the real economy, our models could be useful for forecasting supply chain volatility, energy supply and demand, even earthquake risk. Science is, Ian Hacking writes, the taming of chance. It is the process of iteratively updating priors (something like: identify uncertainty, conceive experiment to reduce uncertainty, execute, update). If science is uncertainty-reduction, forecasting is a critical measure of progress. Better forecasting improves our ability to select interesting experiments (roughly those with greatest expected uncertainty reduction) and update priors. Our models will be used by labs and academics in data-heavy domains. Sam's ex-girlfriend introduced him to Greg back at Carnegie Mellon in 2017, and while that relationship didn't last, their friendship has. After college, Greg went to Harvard Law School, while Sam worked for three years at Jane Street on their Options desk, building & leading a satellite dev team.
Application YC di Zoa Research, ricostruita
Domanda per Y Combinator
Zoa Research, batch Summer 2024. Le vere domande del form, risposte da dati pubblici.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Zoa Research
Powerful quantitative forecasting models
We build generalizable event forecasting models that train across diverse domains rather than specializing narrowly. Our models automate the build-test-improve cycle by embedding LLMs in multi-agent optimization loops. This extends forecasting beyond traditional domain-specific models, making predictions about supply chains, energy, and risk using data integration and sample-efficient inference.
We live in New York, NY, and the company is based here now and would remain so after YC, at least initially.
Most of our experience and network is in New York. We don't see a pressing reason to relocate; YC is remote-friendly and we can engage with the network while continuing to build where we are.
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Domande Frequenti
Questa è l'application YC reale di Zoa Research?
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 Zoa Research (note di lancio, background dei founder, descrizione del prodotto). Mostra come un'azienda come Zoa Research si presenterebbe a YC, non il testo che hanno inviato.
A quale batch YC apparteneva Zoa Research?
Zoa Research apparteneva al batch Summer 2024 di Y Combinator.
Chi ha fondato Zoa Research?
Zoa Research è stato fondato da Greg Volynsky, Sam Damashek.
Cosa fa Zoa Research?
Powerful quantitative forecasting models
Come leggo la ricostruzione completa della application?
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