HABIT YC Application

Spring 2025Active

HABIT went through Y Combinator in the Spring 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: Spring 2025
Industry: B2BRetail
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Michael TrehanFounder
Harish PalaniFounder

What HABIT does

Every month, our robots greet tens of thousands of Americans with a smile. They answer questions, upsell customers, and can be trained just like a human employee.

HABIT's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

HABIT, Spring 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

HABIT

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Conversational robots for physical businesses

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

We build robots that greet customers in stores, answer their questions, and upsell products. Our robots can be trained just like human employees, helping physical retailers engage customers automatically.

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

We live in El Segundo, CA, and plan to keep the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose El Segundo because of proximity to tech talent and retail clients in Southern California. Staying local lets us move fast and iterate closely with early customers.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real HABIT YC application?

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