Maywood YC Application

Winter 2026Active

Maywood went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2026
Industry: FintechBanking and Exchange
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Drake GoodmanFounder
Kent GoodmanFounder
Esteban VizcainoFounder

What Maywood does

Maywood is the first finance-compliant proactive AI that runs 24/7, working across your network, pipeline, and active processes, running constantly in the background and surfacing things you'd otherwise miss. It tracks relationships and sector context to flag when a target is gearing up for a process (and drafts the outreach in your voice), watches network activity across LinkedIn, news, and conference follow-ups, and surfaces where active processes stand, including what's at risk since you last looked. It also auto-updates CRMs and trackers and creates meeting briefs that includes relationship history, recent activity, deal context, external research, talking points that can pull from internal and external data sources. Dealmakers interact with it over email, Teams, or the platform itself.

Maywood's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Maywood

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Finance-compliant proactive AI running 24/7

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

We built an AI that works around the clock to monitor finance sector relationships and deal pipelines for dealmakers. It proactively flags when targets are initiating processes, drafts outreach in the user's voice, tracks activities across LinkedIn, news, and conferences, and updates CRMs automatically. It creates meeting briefs that gather relationship history, deal context, and relevant research. Users interact over email, Teams, or our own platform.

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

We live in New York City, and the company will be based there after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is where our target users, dealmakers in finance, are concentrated. Being close to them helps us understand their workflows and complexity first hand, which is crucial in a finance-compliant product like ours.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Maywood YC application?

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