MindFort YC Application

Spring 2025Active

MindFort went through Y Combinator in the Spring 2025 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: Spring 2025
Industry: B2BSecurity
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Brandon VeisehFounder
Akul GuptaFounder

What MindFort does

MindFort is building fully autonomous AI agents powered by their in-house models that can find, exploit, and patch complex vulnerabilities in web applications at massive scale. MindFort agents use the same principles as human penetration testers to understand their target and figure out the best ways to work together to exploit it. We can do fully autonomous AI web pentesting and bring offensive security to teams out numbered. While security teams were already behind with legacy tools and processes, AI coding is make the problem worse. AI generates code far faster than human teams can secure it; MindFort can match that speed and scale. Our agents will become critical as organizations scale up development with AI.

MindFort's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

MindFort, Spring 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

MindFort

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Autonomous Security Agents

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

We build fully autonomous AI agents that perform web application penetration testing. Our agents find, exploit, and patch complex vulnerabilities at scale, using in-house AI models that mimic how human pentesters think and collaborate. This lets security teams keep up with fast-growing AI-generated development where manual testing can't keep pace.

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

We live in Los Angeles, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Los Angeles has a growing tech scene and is where the founding team already lives and works. Staying here lets us move fast without relocation delays.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real MindFort YC application?

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