Pennant YC Application
New York City
Pennant went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2026 batch as a Fintech 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
- FintechAsset Management
- Location
- New York City
- Team size
- 2
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2026
Founders
Ryan Nowicki StewartFounder/CEO
Tomas TaylorFounder/CTO
What Pennant does
Led by former institutional proxy voters and technologists with a collective 20+ years of experience, Pennant gives institutional investors, public companies, and corporate advisors voting and governance intelligence to act on their own principles at scale.
Pennant's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Pennant, Summer 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Pennant
AI governance intelligence for investors.
Pennant is a platform for institutional investors, public companies, and their advisors to access voting and governance intelligence at scale. We help firms analyze, decide, and act in line with their governance principles on proxy voting and related issues. Our product brings together our experience as proxy voters with new AI models to make sense of the enormous complexity, fast. We want investors to make smarter decisions in real time, not just tick boxes.
We're both in New York City, and so is the company. After YC, the company will remain in New York.
New York is the global hub for institutional investors and the asset managers we serve. Our users are here, and we want to be close to their problems and workflows.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Pennant YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Pennant's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Pennant would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Pennant in?
Pennant was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2026 batch.
Who founded Pennant?
Pennant was founded by Ryan Nowicki Stewart, Tomas Taylor.
What does Pennant do?
The World Model for Corporate Governance
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Pennant's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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