Arcten YC Application

Fall 2025Active

Arcten went through Y Combinator in the Fall 2025 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: Fall 2025
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Armeet Singh JatyaniFounder
Michael Nguyen JrFounder

Arcten's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Arcten, Fall 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Arcten

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Long-horizon autonomous research and coding agents

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

We are building autonomous AI agents that can carry out long-term research and coding tasks without constant human oversight. Our agents dive deep into technical problems, iterating on code and experiments over extended periods to accelerate engineering workflows.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to base the company here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we both live and where our B2B clients in engineering and product typically operate, so it makes sense to stay close to the ecosystem and talent pool.

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 Arcten YC application?

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