PARES AI YC Application

Summer 2025Active

PARES AI went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2025 batch as a Real Estate and Construction 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: Real Estate and Construction
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Zihao WangFounder

What PARES AI does

PARES is an AI-native real estate services firm, providing investment sales brokerage and property management to institutional and middle-market property owners and investors across the country. Real estate is an extremely labor-intensive business, often requiring scaling headcount to grow, being extremely local to submarkets, and operating on low margins. With AI, these services can be centralized and delivered better, faster, and at a fraction of the cost. AI-native brokerage: - Prospecting sellers through automated inbound and outbound outreach - Underwriting deals and producing marketing materials with speed and precision - Surfacing hidden buyers, running the marketing process, and negotiating contracts - Handling all back-office, accounting, and additional support AI-native property management: - Communicating with tenants and vendors around the clock - Screening leasing prospects, sending applications, and drafting leases - Collecting rents, making payments, and chasing delinquencies - Running accounting, payroll, and owner reporting Check us out at

PARES AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

PARES AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-native real estate services firm

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

We built an AI-native platform for real estate services aimed at institutional and middle-market property owners and investors. Our product automates investment sales brokerage - prospecting sellers, underwriting deals, producing marketing materials, negotiating contracts, and managing back-office work. For property management, it handles tenant and vendor communications, leasing workflows, rent collection, and accounting. Our AI centralizes services that are usually local and labor-intensive, cutting costs and increasing scale.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

Los Angeles is a major real estate market with diverse property owners. Being local helps us deeply understand market needs and build trusted relationships while still serving clients nationwide through AI-driven centralized services.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real PARES AI YC application?

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