Cambio YC Application

Summer 2022Active

Cambio went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2022 batch as a Real Estate and Construction 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: Summer 2022
Industry: Real Estate and Construction
Team size: 60
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Leia de Guzman
Stephanie Grayson

What Cambio does

Cambio is the AI-native commercial real estate operations platform, built by investors for investors. Our suite of products automatically collects building data to empower mission critical workflows like capital planning and compliance. Cambio uses LLMs and agentic AI to reason across thousands of pages of unstructured data, run multi-stepanalyses, and continuously adapt as regulations, assets and market conditions change. With Cambio, investors can evaluate and prioritize retrofit investment opportunities across thousands of buildings at once, compressing months of work into minutes. We're working with the largest commercial real estate private equity firms globally like Principal Real Estate, Nuveen Real Estate, BGO, LaSalle Investment Management, Oxford Properties Group, Madison International Realty and Beacon Capital Partners. Our founding team collectively has two decades of commercial real estate experience across KKR, Oxford Properties Group, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs. We are building the solution we wished we had while working at these funds.

Cambio's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Cambio, Summer 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Cambio

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-native commercial real estate ops

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

We built an AI-native platform that collects and analyzes vast amounts of building data to automate commercial real estate operations like capital planning and compliance. Our system uses large language models and agentic AI to digest thousands of pages of unstructured documents and run multi-step analyses, enabling investors to quickly prioritize retrofit investments across portfolios instead of spending months on manual review.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where much of the real estate tech ecosystem is. Being here helps us recruit talent and engage with our target customers globally.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Cambio YC application?

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