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Active · Evals, RL environments and training data for creative tasks

7signal of 100 · rising 7
  • went through YCProgram · this site+4
  • team of 3Team size · YC's directory+3.1

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Founders

  • Pavan Kalyan (a.k.a PK) TankalaFounder/CEO
  • Nirmit AroraFounder/CTO
  • Gunin GuptaFounder/COO

About TensorTest

TensorTest (formerly Ritivel) builds evaluations, reinforcement-learning environments, and expert training data for AI labs developing creative agents, starting with video editing. An agent can produce a valid video file without delivering an edit that meets the client’s brief. Labs need reliable ways to measure creative quality, identify failures, and give agents feedback they can learn from. Our first benchmark, TimelineBench, gives agents client video-editing jobs with raw footage, audio, and a brief. It evaluates the finished work using a verifier calibrated on thousands of blind judgments from professional editors. Across 16 agents we tested, the best passed only 26.8% of jobs. Most failures came down to creative craft rather than broken output. We offer labs private evaluations to identify where their models fail, training environments that use our verifier’s scores as rewards, and expert-created training data, including professional editing demonstrations, preference pairs, and grading rubrics. These offerings connect evaluation to training: identify what an agent gets wrong, provide feedback on its attempts, and supply examples of better work. Our team comes from IIT Bombay and has trained language models and built agentic systems at Microsoft Research.

YC batch
W26 · Winter 2026
Status, per YC
Active
Category
AI, Data
Team size
3
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Founded
2025
Checked
6h ago

YC tags: B2B, Data Labeling, AI

Changes seen

TagsOct 19, 2026

Newly tagged AI; no longer tagged Artificial Intelligence.

NameOct 5, 2026

Renamed from Ritivel.

WebsiteOct 5, 2026

Moved its website from ritivel.com to tensortest.com.

HeadquartersOct 5, 2026

Moved its headquarters from Bengaluru, KA, India to San Francisco, CA, USA.

Former namesOct 5, 2026

Same list, in a new order.

Website linkOct 5, 2026

Website link changed from https://www.ritivel.com to https://www.tensortest.com.

One-linerOct 5, 2026

Rewrote its one-liner; it read "AI-native platform for Life-Sciences Documentation"

IndustryOct 5, 2026

Industry changed from Healthcare to B2B.

SubindustryOct 5, 2026

Subindustry changed from Healthcare -> Healthcare IT to B2B.

TagsOct 5, 2026

Newly tagged Artificial Intelligence, B2B and Data Labeling; no longer tagged Generative AI, Compliance, Enterprise Software and Regtech.

RegionsOct 5, 2026

Now lists the region United States of America and America / Canada; no longer lists India and South Asia.

TensorTest in W26: 199 companies, 81% AI

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TensorTest: questions

Which YC batch was TensorTest in?

TensorTest was in Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch (W26).

Is TensorTest still active?

Y Combinator lists TensorTest as active.

Who founded TensorTest?

TensorTest's founders, as listed on its YC page: Pavan Kalyan (a.k.a PK) Tankala (Founder/CEO), Nirmit Arora (Founder/CTO), Gunin Gupta (Founder/COO).

Where is TensorTest based?

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