Cohesion YC Application

Spring 2026Active

Cohesion 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: B2BFinance and Accounting
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Devon KrapchoFounder
Matthew McBrienFounder
Matt MunnsFounder

What Cohesion does

Cohesion is building AI agents for hedge funds. Our agents track earnings and non-traditional datasets like podcasts and X/twitter. Analysts spend hours a week manually tracking these data sources and still miss relevant investing signals. Now, our agents do it for them autonomously.

Cohesion's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Cohesion

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Your public equities agentic teammate

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

We build AI agents for hedge funds that monitor earnings and unconventional datasets like podcasts and X (formerly Twitter) to find investment signals. Analysts spend hours manually tracking these sources but still miss important insights. Our agents automate this research, working autonomously to surface actionable data.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where the team lives and where most hedge funds and financial data startups are concentrated, providing direct access to our customers and relevant talent.

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 Cohesion YC application?

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