Modern YC Application

Spring 2026Active

Modern went through Y Combinator in the Spring 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: Spring 2026
Industry: B2BOperations
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Seb PooleCo-Founder & CEO
Aleks TomovskiFounder

What Modern does

Modern is consolidating the IT function into a single platform powered by secure, always-on agents who understand your business. Help desk, access, hardware, on/off-boarding, security, procurement are automated end-to-end inside the channels your team already uses (Slack, Teams, Email, Voice, WhatsApp, Telegram).

Modern's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Modern, Spring 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Modern

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-Native ServiceNow run by always-on AI agents

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

We built Modern to automate IT functions like help desk, access, hardware provisioning, onboarding, security, and procurement - all inside messaging tools like Slack, Teams, Email, Voice, WhatsApp, and Telegram. Our platform uses always-on AI agents that understand your business and proactively handle operational IT tasks end to end to reduce manual overhead and streamline workflows.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we're both based and where our customers and partners are. Staying local lets us move fast, hire top talent, and stay plugged into the B2B SaaS and healthcare IT communities we serve.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Modern YC application?

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