
Rami Karabibar and Ray Mieszaniec were rejected from Y Combinator at least three times. And that was just the beginning.
“We lost track, but we had hundreds of meetings with VCs,” said Karabibar, who in 2019 cofounded legal AI startup EvenUp with Mieszaniec and Saam Mashhad. “They kept saying to us: ‘What are you doing? Legal tech sucks, AI sucks, personal injury sucks. Those are three negatives.’”