AirCaps
YC F25 · Active · The AI copilot for in-person conversations.
Competitors
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| SonnetShared: meeting note, meeting assistant, conversationInactiveAI | AI | Inactive | YCS22 |
 CirclebackShared: meeting note, conversation, afterActiveAI, Data, Devtools | AI, Data, Devtools | Active | YCW24 |
 FocalShared: meeting assistant, note, afterNot statedAI | AI | Not stated | Plug and Play |
 SidenoteShared: meeting noteInactiveAI | AI | Inactive | YCS23 |
Adjacent
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
 SpeckShared: meeting noteAcquiredAI | AI | Acquired | YCW24 |
 Rowboat LabsShared: meeting noteActiveAI, Devtools | AI, Devtools | Active | YCS24 |
 WorkFlowyShared: meeting note, informationActiveOther | Other | Active | YCS10 |
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Founders
- Madhav LavakareFounder/CEO
- Nirbhay NarangFounder/CTO
About AirCaps
AirCaps is bringing AI assistance to in-person conversations. Our AI-copilot provides live captions, translations, AI meeting notes and insights for in-person conversations in real-time. It's deployed as an app for lightweight AR glasses so you can see visual information overlaid onto your field of vision. You can think of it like a Zoom AI meeting assistant or Granola, but for in-person conversations, and with the ability to proactively help you in real-time, not just after the conversation. We’re building the capture and intelligence layer for the 216 billion daily conversations that happen face-to-face. We’ve already processed 16,500 hours of real-world conversations and counting. Today, AirCaps assists with 11% of our users’ in-person conversations. We did $93K in revenue in October and grew 6.5x from September while spending <$3K on marketing (and hit $70K in revenue in the first 2 weeks of November). Our power users average 6h+ daily usage and our day-30 retention is 91%. We previously went viral (75M+ views on TikTok, 150K+ followers) and have been featured by The New Yorker, WIRED, and Forbes. Madhav (CEO, Yale CS) has been building in audio and AR since age 13, starting with Google Glass apps and voice assistants for Raspberry Pis. He researched audio AI at the MIT Media Lab. Nirbhay (CTO, Cornell CS) built voice AI on smart glasses in high school and built conversational AI products as the first engineer at 2 YC startups.
- YC batch
- F25 · Fall 2025
- Status, per YC
- Active
- Category
- AI
- Team size
- 5
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Founded
- 2024
- Checked
- 32m ago
AirCaps: questions
Which YC batch was AirCaps in?
AirCaps was in Y Combinator's Fall 2025 batch (F25).
Is AirCaps still active?
Y Combinator lists AirCaps as active.
Who founded AirCaps?
AirCaps's founders, as listed on its YC page: Madhav Lavakare (Founder/CEO), Nirbhay Narang (Founder/CTO).
Where is AirCaps based?
AirCaps lists San Francisco, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.
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