Persana AI YC Application

Winter 2023Active

Persana AI went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2023 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: Winter 2023
Industry: B2BSales
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Sriya MaramCo-founder and CEO
Rush ShahaniFounder

What Persana AI does

Persana AI | The Agent Layer for Modern GTM Teams AI Superpowered Sales & GTM Intelligence - built on autonomous agents AI agents that research, enrich, and engage your best prospects - autonomously, not just automated. The Shift from Tools to Agents: Your GTM stack is fragmented. Multiple enrichment providers. Workflow tools with hard limits. Manual triggers. Disconnected data. Persana consolidates it all into one agentic platform that thinks, learns, and executes - 24/7. What Persana Does: 🔍 Multi-Source Intelligence - 100+ data sources tracking funding, hiring, tech changes, real-time intent signals, waterfall data for finding emails, phone numbers and more 🤖 Autonomous Execution - Run complex workflows across 100K+ prospects without manual triggers or platform limits 🧠 Continuous Learning - AI that adapts based on what actually converts to pipeline, not predefined rules ⚡ Native CRM Integration - Bi-directional sync with Salesforce, HubSpot, and your entire GTM stack Why Teams Choose Persana: Replace fragmented point solutions with one autonomous platform - Break free from workflow ceilings and platform constraints - Access comprehensive signal intelligence across all major data sources - Scale prospecting without adding headcount Results Customers See: ✓ 95% increase in qualified pipeline ✓ 65% faster sales cycles ✓ 3+ weeks per month reclaimed from manual work ✓ 30% higher conversion rates The Technology: Trained on 700M+ contacts and 200M+ companies, and 100+ data sources. Multi-agent architecture combining research, enrichment, and execution. Proprietary embeddings fine-tuned for GTM use cases. The Team: Built by LinkedIn engineering veterans who scaled systems to billions of users. Backed by Y Combinator, Dharmesh Shah, Race Capital, and Stage 2 Capital. 🚀 Join 15,000+ GTM professionals using agents to boost their revenue → persana.ai

Persana AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Persana AI, Winter 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Persana AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Sales agents that close deals using 100+ data sources

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

We built AI agents that autonomously research, enrich, and engage sales prospects using over 100 data sources. Our platform runs complex workflows on 100,000+ prospects without manual triggers, adapting to what actually converts pipeline instead of relying on rules. It directly integrates with Salesforce, HubSpot, and the GTM stack to automate and scale sales outreach without adding headcount.

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

We live in San Francisco, and the company will continue to be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is our home and the center of the GTM and AI startup ecosystem. Being here keeps us close to customers, partners, and top engineering talent.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Persana AI YC application?

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