YCW26· AI· Data· DevtoolsCaptain
Self-tuning file search for AI agents
Founders
- Lewis Lien PolanskyFounder/CEO
- Edgar BabajanyanFounder/CTO
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About Captain
Captain syncs complex, multimodal files and cloud storage from sources like S3, SharePoint, and Google Drive, and makes that knowledge searchable for your agents. Instead of stitching together parsers, embeddings, vector databases, rerankers, and retrieval infrastructure, Captain self-tunes the retrieval pipeline to your data and workloads. On benchmarks, this improves accuracy from roughly 78% with standard RAG to over 97% by tuning retrieval to the unique structure and content of your data. Captain is purpose-built for complex, regulated, and high-stakes file search workloads. Learn more at https://captain.dev
San Francisco, CA, USA
Captain: questions
Which YC batch was Captain in?
Captain was in Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch (W26).
Is Captain still active?
Y Combinator lists Captain as active.
Who founded Captain?
Captain's founders, as listed on its YC page: Lewis Lien Polansky (Founder/CEO), Edgar Babajanyan (Founder/CTO).
Where is Captain based?
Captain lists San Francisco, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.
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