Lance YC Application

Winter 2026Active

Lance went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2026
Industry: B2B
Team size: 10
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Caleb ChanFounder
Gavin BrennenFounder
Gatik TrivediFounder

What Lance does

Autonomous AI agents that answer calls, close sales, and run operations, so your team can focus on guests. Trusted by some of the top hotel groups in the US, supporting 50+ hotels across brands like Marriott, Hilton, and Hyatt Built on advanced Computer Use Agent technology, Lance agents can navigate your existing hotel software, make real-time decisions, and handle complex multi-step tasks.

Lance's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Lance, Winter 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Lance

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI Agents That Run Hotel Operations

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

We build autonomous AI agents that handle hotel operations like answering calls, closing sales, and managing daily tasks within existing hotel software. These agents take over repetitive and complex multi-step workflows so hotel staff can focus on guests.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA. After YC, the company will remain based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team and early customers are. It has the necessary access to talent and the hotel industry networks we rely on.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Lance YC application?

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