Aden YC Application

Profile updated September 9, 2026Winter 2020Active

San Francisco, CA, USA

Aden went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2020 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Winter 2020
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Vincent JiangFounder
Timothy ZhangFounder

Aden's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Aden, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Aden

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Open source agent generation framework

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We are building Aden, an open source framework that simplifies building, deploying, and managing AI agents. It lets developers create customizable AI workflows and autonomous agents that can perform complex tasks for businesses. Our platform is designed to fill the gap in developer tooling around managing agent infrastructure.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in San Francisco, CA, and after YC the company will continue to be based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where the engineering team is located and close to our early users. Staying local helps us move fast and stay connected to the AI and developer community relevant to our product.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Aden YC application?

No. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Aden's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Aden would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted. Y Combinator does not publish most applications.