Palette YC Application

Summer 2026Active

San Francisco

Palette went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2026
Industry: B2B
Location: San Francisco
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Josephine LeeFounder
Serena PeiFounder

What Palette does

Palette is a self-improving AI-native media platform built by MIT computer scientists and multimodal researchers that unifies the creative workflow into a single generation engine. We’re building a fully autonomous production engine that generates, distributes, and optimizes interactive media for every brand and audience.

Palette's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Palette, Summer 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Palette

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-native media platform for interactive content

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

We're building Palette, a self-improving AI-native media platform. Palette is a unified engine that autonomously generates, distributes, and optimizes interactive media for brands and their audiences. It streamlines the entire creative workflow into a single system, handling everything from production to distribution without human intervention.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company would stay based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is the heart of the AI and media tech ecosystem. Being here means better access to talent, resources, and users who push us to move faster.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Palette YC application?

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