Alchemize YC Application

Spring 2026Active

Alchemize went through Y Combinator in the Spring 2026 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: Spring 2026
Industry: B2BSupply Chain and Logistics
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Robert HouCo-Founder
Samuel FuCo-Founder

What Alchemize does

Alchemize is building an AI-native customs brokerage. Importers are currently hindered by legacy brokers relying on manual workflows, where hand-keyed entries and slow research result in preventable shipping delays, lack of visibility, and unnecessary costs. Alchemize automates these workflows, delivering expert-level compliance at software speed.

Alchemize's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Alchemize, Spring 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Alchemize

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-Native Customs Brokerage

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

We build an AI-native customs brokerage platform that automates the manual workflows importers face today. Our software replaces hand-keyed entries and slow compliance research with AI-driven processes, preventing shipping delays and cutting unnecessary costs. It gives importers faster, more accurate customs clearance without legacy brokers' bottlenecks.

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

We live in San Francisco and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco's concentration of tech talent and logistics companies makes it the best place to build and scale a customs brokerage with AI at its core.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Alchemize YC application?

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