Moda YC Application

Winter 2026Active

Moda 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

Pranav BediFounder
Mohammed Al-RasheedFounder

What Moda does

Moda is the reliability & monitoring layer for agents. It surfaces patterns across agent hallucinations, laziness, forgetfulness, and tool call failures. While also providing analytics on user frustration, net promoter score, retention, and churn rates. In the next 10 years, with more AI agents spawning and trying to get PMF, developing an agent that actually works for users is critical. Everyone has access to the same models, thus the ones that win on a product level will be the ones who learn fastest from real usage. Moda is that learning layer.

Moda's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Moda

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The monitoring layer your AI agents need.

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

Moda is a monitoring and reliability layer for AI agents. It tracks failures like hallucinations, laziness, forgetfulness, and tool call failures, while also providing analytics on user metrics such as frustration, net promoter score, retention, and churn. This helps teams building AI agents learn from real user behavior and improve their products faster than competitors using the same base AI models.

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

We live and are based in San Francisco, CA, USA, and intend to keep the company there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where the AI developer community and customers we want to serve are concentrated.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Moda YC application?

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