KelAI YC Application

Spring 2026Active

KelAI went through Y Combinator in the Spring 2026 batch as a Fintech 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: FintechAsset Management
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Jeremie CohenFounder

What KelAI does

Founded by former WorldQuant portfolio manager Jeremie Cohen, KelAI is building the autonomous alpha engine for hedge funds, traders and institutional investors. Investment teams now have more data, tools and compute than ever, but research still runs across siloed systems and inefficient workflows. KelAI turns that fragmented process into a compounding AI-native engine that continuously finds, tests and validates trading signals at a pace no human team can match.

KelAI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

KelAI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Autonomous AI engine for trading alpha

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

We are building an AI-native engine that continuously discovers, tests, and validates trading signals for hedge funds, traders, and institutional investors. Our platform replaces fragmented workflows and fragmented data sets with a compounding algorithmic research process that finds alpha faster than human teams can.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is the center of institutional finance and trading, where our customers and domain expertise are concentrated. Staying in NYC keeps us close to our users and capital.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real KelAI YC application?

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