Paloma YC Application

Summer 2025Active

Paloma 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: B2B
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Nazli DanisFounder
Alex AvnitCRO & Co-Founder

What Paloma does

Paloma gives manufacturing companies an embedded team of engineers and ops experts who replace their manual operations with custom AI-native software.

Paloma's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Paloma

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Digital transformation for real economy businesses

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

We build custom AI-native software embedded in manufacturing companies' operations, replacing their manual processes with an integrated team of our engineers and ops experts to improve efficiency and reduce errors.

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

We currently live and work in San Francisco, CA, and the company will remain based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we are located and where the team is established. It's also a hub for AI and SaaS talent, which fits our deep technical and operational focus.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Paloma YC application?

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