Marble YC Application

Summer 2026Active

New York City

Marble went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2026
Industry: B2B
Location: New York City
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Aakar KhannaFounder/CEO
Arjun ChalihaFounder/CTO

What Marble does

Marble is the first AI-native operating system for the restaurant back-of-house. Restaurants, cafes and bars still run on a patchwork of disconnected point solutions, spreadsheets, clipboards and tribal knowledge, which costs the industry billions each year in stockouts, food waste, and lost profit. Marble replaces that entire stack with one system. Computer vision and voice AI capture real-time inventory levels 90% faster than manual counts, ML models forecast item-level demand at 97% accuracy, and AI agents run dozens of end-to-end workflows autonomously, from procurement and invoice reconciliation to scheduling, food prep, menu engineering, and more.

Marble's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Marble, Summer 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Marble

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The autonomous back-of-house for restaurants.

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

We're building Marble, an AI-native operating system for restaurant back-of-house teams. Marble uses computer vision and voice AI to track inventory in real time, machine learning models to forecast demand, and AI agents to automate workflows like ordering, invoice reconciliation, scheduling, and food prep - all in one platform. We replace manual, disconnected processes with a single system built specifically for how kitchens actually run.

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

We live in New York City, NY, USA, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York City is the center of the US restaurant industry and gives us close access to early customers and pilot kitchens. We want to stay close to the operators using Marble day-to-day.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Marble YC application?

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