Riften YCアプリケーション

Summer 2026Active

San Francisco

RiftenはSummer 2026バッチでB2B企業としてY Combinatorを卒業しました。以下：会社の事業内容、創業者、そして実際のYCフォームで質問ごとに再構築されたYCへの応募内容。

YCバッチ: Summer 2026
業界: B2BInfrastructure
所在地: San Francisco
ステータス: Active
ローンチ済み: 2026

創業者

Carl StaufferFounder/CEO

Riftenの事業内容

Intelligence will be the most valuable asset a company owns. Today, almost every company rents it. Companies pay a handful of labs one token at a time. Each dollar buys an answer, not an asset. They spend more, but own nothing more. Riften reverses that. Change one environment variable and Riften becomes the gateway for a company's AI traffic. We route each request to the lowest-cost model that can do the job, serving most work on open-weight models we host. Customers save money immediately without rebuilding their products. The gateway is the entry point. Over time, Riften turns the company's work into private models built on open weights and shaped around the business. What begins as cheaper inference becomes an intelligence stack the company owns, runs on infrastructure it controls, and uses to power its most important applications. We call this earned intelligence. It is created by the company's own work, controlled by the company, and accumulated over time. The next generation of companies will not rent their intelligence. They will earn it, own it, and compound it. Riften is how they get there.

RiftenのYCアプリケーション、再構築済み

Y Combinator 申請

Riften 様、Summer 2026 バッチ。公開データから回答された、実際のフォームの質問。

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Company

Company name

Riften

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Earned intelligence for every company.

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

We're building Riften, a gateway that sits in front of a company's AI traffic. It automatically routes requests to the lowest-cost model that can handle them, prioritizing open-weight models we host. Over time, it accumulates data to train private models tailored to each company, so they own and compound their own intelligence. It starts as a cost-saving API gateway and becomes a stack companies control instead of renting AI.

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

San Francisco, CA, USA. The company is and will be based in San Francisco.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where most of our early users are and is the center for AI infrastructure work. It's also where we live and work.

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よくある質問

Riftenの実際のYCアプリケーションですか？

いいえ。Y Combinatorは提出されたアプリケーションを非公開にしています。これは再構築されたものです。実際のYCフォームの質問に、Riftenの公開データ（ローンチノート、創業者経歴、製品説明）から回答しています。Riftenのような会社がYCにどのようにアピールするかを示しており、彼らが提出したテキストではありません。