PlayAI History
What YC batch were we?
W23
Went to California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo and studied Graphic Communication
Stu
What is the primary HR IT system we use?
Rippling
What company did Felfel work at before Play?
Car OEM from South Korea
Hyundai
What year were we incorporated?
June 2022
Is originally from China and is a ML Research Engineer
Xiaoyu
What is our payment solutions provider?
Stripe
What city did Hammad and Felfel live in when they incorporated Play?
London
A top global bank
JP Morgan
What is the address of the office we were based in starting February 2024?
301 High Street
Previously worked at PayPal
Neil Shepherd
Figma
What is the name of the company that Hammad and Felfel worked at together?
dubizzle
a16z-backed company building digital workers through AI
11x
What was our MVP?
a chrome extension TTS medium article reader
Cultivates Bonsai trees in their free time
Zane
AI Cloud infrastructure provider
Vercel
Name of the complex where they live
The Hadley Apartments
Address of our first office
800 West El Camino Real Suite 180. Mountain View, CA 94040
Lived in Colombia
Noah
Tool used for cleaning up audio data for training (that we recently phased out)
Lalal AI
Number of times applied to YC before being accepted
3 times
Voice AI Agent building tool for developers, also are YC and AI grant-backed
Vapi