YCW26· AI· Data· DevtoolsShofo
The World's Largest Video Library
Founders
- Braiden DishmanFounder/CEO
- Andre BragaFounder & Head of AI
- Alexzendor MisraFounder/CTO
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About Shofo
We are building the world’s largest video library. We've aggregated billions of videos into a searchable index and use agents to find and label the exact datasets a lab needs on demand. If a lab needs 100K hours of cooking videos where someone is holding a pan, with reasoning annotations on top, our agents search the index, extract the matching subset, route it through our labeling pipeline, and deliver a custom dataset in days, not months.
San Francisco, CA, USA
Shofo: questions
Which YC batch was Shofo in?
Shofo was in Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch (W26).
Is Shofo still active?
Y Combinator lists Shofo as active.
Who founded Shofo?
Shofo's founders, as listed on its YC page: Braiden Dishman (Founder/CEO), Andre Braga (Founder & Head of AI), Alexzendor Misra (Founder/CTO).
Where is Shofo based?
Shofo lists San Francisco, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.
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