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Hanji

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Turn your hardest documents into reliable data

P25·Spring 2025·B2B·San Francisco, CA, USA·Team of 4·Founded 2026

About

We turn scanned, faxed, and handwritten documents into structured data with a pipeline tuned to your workflow

Founders

  • David Yu· Co-founder & CEO

    David is the founder and CEO of Hanji. David also founded YouLearn, an AI tutor used by millions of students, and grew education content to 300M+ views by teaching students how to study smarter. David previously led tech and marketing at TWA and taught AI to 1,000+ students while in college.

  • Achyut Krishna Byanjankar· Co-Founder, CTO

    Co-founder of Hanji. Interned as a SWE at Evitar Labs. Studied CS at Michigan State University. Built 6 Al apps in 6 weeks with 300k+ impressions. Created Apollo, 130k+ views, ft. on LangChain & Vercel.

  • Soami Kapadia· Founder

    Co-Founder of Hanji. Previously interned at Groq, where I created an open-source repo with 900+ stars. Ranked Top 50 nationally in speedcubing.

Product launches · 1 launch

Change history · 19 recorded

  1. July 28, 2026
    • Description rewritten07:00 PM
    • Pitch updated07:00 PM
    • Tags updated07:00 PM
  2. July 26, 2026
    • Launches refreshed08:01 PM
    • YC partner updated08:01 PM
    • LinkedIn profile linked08:01 PM
    • Founder profile updated08:01 PM
  3. July 15, 2026
    • Tags updated07:00 PM
  4. July 5, 2026
    • Founder profile updated08:01 PM
    • founded year updated08:01 PM
    • YC partner updated08:01 PM
    • Launches refreshed08:01 PM
    • Pitch updated07:00 PM
    • Tags updated07:00 PM
    • Industries updated07:00 PM
    • Industry reclassified to B2B07:00 PM
    • Website updated07:00 PM
    • Team grew from 3 to 407:00 PM
    • Description rewritten07:00 PM