Riften

Riften YC 申请

Summer 2026Active

San Francisco

Riften 在 Summer 2026 批次的 Y Combinator 中作为一家 B2B 公司进行过。以下是:公司做什么、谁创立了它,以及其 YC 申请,按照真实 YC 表格逐题重建。

YC 批次
Summer 2026
行业
B2BInfrastructure
地点
San Francisco
状态
Active
已发布
2026

创始人

  • Carl Stauffer
    Carl StaufferFounder/CEO

Riften 做什么

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 的 YC 申请,重建版

Y Combinator 申请

Riften,Summer 2026 期。来自公开数据的真实申请问题解答。

  1. Founders2
  2. Company7
  3. Progress7
  4. Idea4
  5. Equity3
  6. Curious2
  7. Batch Preference1

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.

21 更多回答 在完整申请中

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference 包含在完整版中。创建免费账户即可在 YC Insights 中打开,紧邻每个其他 YC 批次。

常见问题解答

这是 Riften 的真实 YC 申请吗?

不是。Y Combinator 对提交的申请保密。这是重建版:使用 Riften 的公开数据(发布笔记、创始人背景、产品描述)回答真实的 YC 表格问题。它展示了像 Riften 这样的公司会如何向 YC 自我介绍,而不是他们提交的文本。

Riften 是哪个 YC 批次的?

Riften 是 Y Combinator Summer 2026 批次的成员。

谁创立了 Riften?

Riften 由 Carl Stauffer 创立。

Riften 做什么?

Earned intelligence for every company

如何阅读完整的重建申请?

创建免费的 Round Funded 账户。YC Insights 中包含 Riften 的完整 26 个问题的版本,以及其他所有 YC 批次的公司信息。

更多 YC 初创公司,例如 Riften