Pangolin YC Application

Summer 2025Active

Pangolin 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: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Milo SchwartzFounder
Owen SchwartzFounder

What Pangolin does

Pangolin is an open-source, identity-based remote access platform built on WireGuard that enables secure, seamless connectivity to private and public resources.

Pangolin's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Pangolin

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Identity-aware VPN and proxy for remote access

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

We built Pangolin, an open-source platform that replaces traditional VPNs with an identity-based remote access system built on WireGuard. It lets companies securely connect users to any private or public resource without relying on IP-based networks. This makes remote access simpler, more secure, and easier to audit.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, and after YC we will continue to base the company here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is our home base where we have access to engineering talent and a network of early users and peers in infrastructure software. Staying here keeps us close to our market and resources.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Pangolin YC application?

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