MusicArena

YC company profile

The crowdsourced benchmark for AI-generated music and music production

https://musicarena.io/

• YC batch: Summer 2026
• Founded: 2026
• Team size: -1
• Location: San Francisco
• Country: US
• Status: Active
• Industry: B2B
• Stage: Early
• Tags: Music, Crowdsourcing, AI
• YC partner: Jared Friedman

Founders

Kevin Yao — Founder/CEO

Co-Founder at Catapult (YC S26). UCLA dropout. Previously ML and robotics research at Berkeley & UCLA. CoRL 2026, AIME, USNCO National Qualifier, Science Olympiad medalist.

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Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.