Pax Historia YC Application

Winter 2026Active

Pax Historia went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2026 batch as a Consumer 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: Winter 2026
Industry: ConsumerGaming
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Eli Bullock-PapaFounder
Ryan ZhangFounder

What Pax Historia does

Pax Historia is an alternate-history sandbox game where players choose a country, a moment in time, and rewrite the course of history. What if Rome never fell? What if the Soviet Union survived? What if Genghis Khan ruled for another generation? We go beyond history, too. What if aliens invaded Earth? What if you were a college dropout creating a tech startup? The ability to create, edit, and copy custom maps, actors, historical context, and more means that users can play nearly any scenario they can imagine. In the last four months we've organically built a passionate fanbase of tens of thousands of daily active players and we're excited to expand on this early start. Consider joining us to help build vastly better tools for creators and experiences for players.

Pax Historia's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Pax Historia, Winter 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Pax Historia

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The first AI-powered grand strategy platform

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

We build Pax Historia, an alternate-history sandbox game where players pick a country and a point in time to rewrite history. The platform lets users create and edit custom maps, actors, and scenarios - from realistic historical divergences to fictional what-ifs like alien invasions or tech startups. Our AI helps generate and manage complex historical and alternate contexts, making it easy for anyone to create rich grand strategy experiences.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is the center of the startup ecosystem and where our founders already live. Staying here keeps the team focused and connected to talent and resources we'll need.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Pax Historia YC application?

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