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Dream

Active · Using VLMs to Catch Damage

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7signal of 100 · rising 7
  • went through YCProgram · this site+4
  • team of 2Team size · YC's directory+2.5

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Founders

  • Ryland BirchmeierFounder
  • Alexander HalpernFounder

About Dream

Dream makes AI cameras that catch damage teams miss. Car dealerships, equipment rental companies, fleets, and more move expensive assets in and out all day, and undocumented damage is a costly leak. Dream cameras are simple to set up and work automatically. Each vehicle or machine that passes is photographed from every angle, identified, and reconstructed into a complete condition record. On return or intake, Dream instantly flags new dents, scrapes, and changes your team might miss, giving one source of truth for every asset's condition over time. Ryland worked at X/xAI and built aerial damage-detection vision at Vexcel Imaging. Alexander worked at AWS and trained edge-camera models deployed in the wild across Africa and India to detect poachers.

YC batch
S26 · Summer 2026
Status, per YC
Active
Category
AI
Team size
2
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Founded
2026
Checked
6h ago

YC tags: Hardware, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, B2B, AI

Dream in S26: 229 companies, 88% AI

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Dream: questions

Which YC batch was Dream in?

Dream was in Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch (S26).

Is Dream still active?

Y Combinator lists Dream as active.

Who founded Dream?

Dream's founders, as listed on its YC page: Ryland Birchmeier (Founder), Alexander Halpern (Founder).

Where is Dream based?

Dream lists San Francisco, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.