Monte YC Application

Summer 2025Active

Monte went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2025
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Henry BaeFounder
Alex FleuryFounder
Jamin LiuFounder

What Monte does

Monte is an applied research lab building products for continual learning and recursive self-improvement for AI agents.

Monte's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Monte, Summer 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Monte

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Continual Learning for Agents

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

We build software that enables AI agents to learn continuously and improve themselves over time. Our tools help teams deploy reinforcement learning systems that adapt and evolve without manual retraining, solving the challenge of building agents that can recursively self-improve in real-world environments.

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

We live in San Francisco, and Monte will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco's engineering talent pool and AI community provide the best environment for us to grow our company and product. Being here keeps us close to potential customers and partners focused on AI and ML infrastructure.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Monte YC application?

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