Cortex AI YC 지원서

Fall 2025Active

Cortex AI은(는) Fall 2025 배치에서 Industrials 회사로 Y Combinator를 거쳤습니다. 아래에는 회사의 사업 내용, 창립자, 그리고 실제 YC 양식에 맞춰 재구성한 YC 지원서가 있습니다.

YC 배치: Fall 2025
산업: IndustrialsManufacturing and Robotics
팀 규모: 3
상태: Active
출시됨: 2025

창업자

Lucas NgooFounder

Cortex AI의 사업 내용

Cortex AI builds the world’s most diverse and large-scale real-world workplace robot & egocentric dataset - where the physical world becomes the next training and evaluation set for embodied AI. We power frontier labs developing robotics foundation models and general-purpose robots by providing the data they need: 1️⃣ Egocentric Data - real-workplace human video with hand/body pose, depth, and subtask labels. 2️⃣ Robot Data - trajectories collected from manipulators and humanoids in real industry settings. 3️⃣ Human-in-the-Loop Rollouts & Evals - real-world deployments with remote operators who recover robots when they fail, capturing data that feeds back into training and continuously improves models. Additionally, through the Cortex Marketplace, workplaces get paid to host data-collection and evaluation sessions, while labs access the in-the-wild data that truly matters. This draws on Lucas’s previous experience as co-founder of Carousell, a C2C marketplace that scaled to a $1B+ valuation.

Cortex AI의 YC 지원서, 재구성됨

Y Combinator 지원

Cortex AI, Fall 2025 기수. 공개 데이터를 기반으로 작성된 실제 지원 질문.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Cortex AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Large-scale real-world robot & human data for embodied AI

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

We build the largest dataset of real-world workplace robot and egocentric human data. This includes video with hand/body pose, depth, and subtask labels, plus robot trajectories from industrial manipulators and humanoids. We also run human-in-the-loop deployments where remote operators fix robot failures, which creates new data that feeds back into training and evaluation. Labs use our data to train and evaluate robotics foundation models and robots that can operate in real industrial environments.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we are found and live. It's also a hub for robotics and AI research labs, making it the best place to connect with customers and recruit talent.

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Cortex AI의 실제 YC 지원서인가요?

아닙니다. Y Combinator는 제출된 지원서를 비공개로 유지합니다. 이것은 재구성된 것입니다. 실제 YC 양식 질문에 Cortex AI의 공개 데이터(출시 노트, 창업자 배경, 제품 설명)를 기반으로 답변했습니다. Cortex AI과 같은 회사가 YC에 어떻게 자신을 소개하는지 보여주며, 그들이 제출한 텍스트는 아닙니다.