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Lightly

YC Summer 2021 Active

Help ML teams label the right data

https://lightly.ai/ ↗
Thesis fit
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Outside your stated focus; easy to skip unless something exceptional.

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Idea match Light

How close the company’s idea is to your thesis statement

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Overlap with sectors you care about

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Your thesis: “We back exceptional technical founders building AI-first products and infrastructure, deploying $100K checks within 24 hours.”

Founder → stable Traction → stable Idea vs market ↓ declining
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People

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YC company pages list founders in page JSON, but we only scrape a capped slice of the directory. Pull this slug with .venv/bin/python run_sourcing.py --sources yc_founders --slugs lightly then re-ingest. Open on YC ↗

Activity & evidence

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