Maven YC Application

Winter 2026Active

Maven 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: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Brandon BoehmeFounder
Wasi AhmedFounder

What Maven does

We enable AI voice agents to collect payments over the phone through a single API call, handling card processing and PCI compliance across all payment gateways

Maven's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Maven

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Payments Infrastructure for Voice Agents

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

We built an API that lets AI voice agents collect payments over the phone in a single call. Our platform manages card processing and PCI compliance across all major payment gateways, so companies building voice assistants don't have to deal with the complexity of payment security or integration.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where both of us live, and it's where most of our initial customers and payments infrastructure partners are based. Staying local keeps us in close contact with the ecosystem we serve.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Maven YC application?

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