LATO YC Application

Summer 2026Active

San Francisco

LATO 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: San Francisco
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Tymek StaniszewskiFounder/CEO
Tien ChuFounder/CTO

What LATO does

The best investments come from conviction, and conviction comes from understanding a market deeply: its customers, its competitors, and where it's heading. Today that understanding is slow and expensive to build. Reaching the right people takes weeks, a commercial study costs $300k+, and each one starts from scratch. LATO does this research end-to-end, combining public data and the fund's own knowledge with first-hand interviews of a market's consumers, experts, and operators. This research grounds a simulation of the market to predict how market participants behave.

LATO's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

LATO

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Predict how market participants behave

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

We built LATO to make market research fast, rigorous, and predictive. We combine public data, a fund's own knowledge, and direct interviews with market participants to ground a simulation that predicts how customers, experts, and operators will actually behave. Our users are investors and market researchers who need conviction but don't have months or $300k to get it. Now you get rigorous answers in days, not weeks.

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

We're based in San Francisco, CA, and that will stay the same after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our early users, investors, and industry conversations happen. The network and pace here just make sense for us.

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 LATO YC application?

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