Inscrição YC de Zoa Research
Zoa Research passou pela Y Combinator no batch Summer 2024 como uma empresa B2B. Abaixo: o que a empresa faz, quem a fundou e sua inscrição para a YC, reconstruída pergunta por pergunta no formulário real da YC.
- Batch YC
- Summer 2024
- Indústria
- B2B
- Tamanho da equipe
- 5
- Status
- Active
- Lançada
- 2024
Fundadores
Greg VolynskyFounder
Sam DamashekFounder
O que Zoa Research faz
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.
Inscrição YC de Zoa Research, reconstruída
Inscrição Y Combinator
Zoa Research, lote Summer 2024. As verdadeiras perguntas do formulário, respondidas com dados públicos.
- 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.
21 respostas a mais na inscrição completa
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Perguntas Frequentes
Esta é a inscrição real da YC de Zoa Research?
Não. A Y Combinator mantém as inscrições submetidas em privado. Esta é uma reconstrução: as perguntas reais do formulário da YC, respondidas a partir dos dados públicos de Zoa Research (notas de lançamento, históricos de fundadores, descrição do produto). Mostra como uma empresa como Zoa Research se apresentaria à YC, não o texto que eles submeteram.
Em qual batch da YC Zoa Research esteve?
Zoa Research fez parte do batch Summer 2024 da Y Combinator.
Quem fundou o Zoa Research?
O Zoa Research foi fundado por Greg Volynsky, Sam Damashek.
O que o Zoa Research faz?
Powerful quantitative forecasting models
Como eu leio o application completo reconstruído?
Crie uma conta gratuita no Round Funded. A versão completa de 26 respostas do application do Zoa Research, e de todos os outros lotes do YC, está no YC Insights.
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