Mochi
New accelerator entry · 2026-08-13 · the record
In their words
Mochi is an app to watch and create anime microdramas: fast paced shows with a cliffhanger every minute. We produce originals with AI, collaborating with writers from Marvel, Cartoon Network, and Toei Animation, and our users can also create in app too - with over 500 episodes created each day from 3,000+ creators.
What the record says
What the site is built with
Read from the page's own HTML and response headers on 10 September 2026, at https://www.mochi.tv/. Each badge matched a string the site serves about itself — hover one to see which. Nothing here is a traffic, ranking or revenue figure: those cannot be read off a page and are not claimed.
Where this sits on the site
Checked away from the directory entry. What is below does not come from the company's Y Combinator page.
1 minute anime, new drops daily — watch free on iOS and Android.
The title and description the site itself served, answering 200. Not a cached copy and not the company's directory entry — what was live when we asked.
Founders, titles and bios as the company published them. Photographs are our own copies of the ones on that record, so they do not break when the original link expires.
Against the 213 companies on file from Summer 2026. Median team 2, largest 30.
Interest Score
Every component below is a field already shown elsewhere on this page.
| Component | What it read | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Team size against its batch | 3 on the directory entry | 14 / 25 |
| Founders named | 1 named | 6 / 15 |
| Site answered when asked | https://www.mochi.tv/ answered | 20 / 20 |
| Public repository linked | no GitHub account is linked | 0 / 20 |
| Named on Hacker News | no thread carries the company by name | 0 / 20 |
| Total | 40 / 100 = 40 | |
The formula is the table: each component scores against a fixed maximum, the totals are added, and the score is the total divided by the points this record type can carry — 100, not 100 — because a directory entry states no offering amount or investor count, and scoring it against components the entry cannot hold would rank every company below every filing for the same reason. It measures how much publicly checkable activity surrounds this record today. It is not growth, not traction, not quality, and it is not a prediction.
Companies doing the same kind of thing (Consumer › Content), matched on the sectors each one lists rather than on when it was admitted.
| Company | Batch | Sectors | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grocalo | Summer 2026 | Entertainment, Creator Economy, AI | 2026-08-18 |
| MOCHI.TV | Summer 2026 | Consumer, AI | 2026-08-13 |
| Instaplay | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Gaming | 2026-07-16 |
| Jcode | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools | 2026-08-06 |
| antimattr | Fall 2026 | Hardware, Consumer, AI | 2026-08-16 |
| Asakana | Fall 2026 | SaaS, Food & Beverage | 2026-08-31 |
| Drafted | Spring 2026 | — | 2026-05-29 |
| Egoist Machines | Summer 2026 | Personalization, Privacy, Consumer Products | 2026-07-22 |
| Moonshot | Summer 2026 | — | 2026-07-09 |
| OpenTrade | Summer 2026 | Finance, Gaming, Investing | 2026-07-09 |
| PokerClubHub | Summer 2026 | SaaS, Crypto / Web3, Gaming | 2026-07-26 |
| Quippy | Fall 2026 | AI-Enhanced Learning, Social, Health & Wellness | 2026-08-26 |
| Result | Spring 2026 | — | 2026-05-20 |
| tash | Summer 2026 | Consumer, Investing | 2026-07-31 |
| The Subvocal Company | Fall 2026 | Hard Tech | 2026-08-30 |
| Touchy | Summer 2026 | Consumer, Productivity, AI | 2026-08-14 |
| Veeza AI | Fall 2026 | AIOps, Consumer, AI | 2026-08-16 |
| Wondering | Summer 2026 | AI-Enhanced Learning, Education, Consumer | 2026-07-27 |
| Uno Wallet | Spring 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Fintech, Payments | 2026-05-26 |
| Agent FM | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, Productivity | 2026-08-05 |
| Agnost AI | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, Analytics | 2026-07-08 |
| Akon Labs | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, SaaS | 2026-08-14 |
| Alkera AI | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, Data Science | 2026-07-10 |
| Allia Health | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare, Mental Health | 2026-08-19 |
| Almanac | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, AI Assistant | 2026-07-16 |
| Mochi (this page) | Summer 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, Consumer | 2026-08-13 |
Click a column heading to sort. 121 other records here share at least one sector with this one; the 25 nearest are in the table. Comparison is against records held here, not against every company that exists.
- 1 founder named on the directory entry.
- One of 3 companies held here in Consumer › Content.
No investor is drawn from a Form D — the form states how many invested and never who. The one investor on this graph is named because a batch has exactly one.
The full profile
Source Check, INVEST, RECRUIT and Press Requests on Mochi
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- INVEST — compare this company against the peers above, on the numbers.
- RECRUIT — see who is already on the team.
- Press Requests — connect with Robert Qiu for a story.
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Sourced from the company's Y Combinator directory entry, and from the company's own site, read directly on 2026-09-07 (mochi.tv). Figures are read directly from the source record; names have not been matched against other people.