Pollen YC Application

Winter 2026Active

Pollen went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2026 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 2026
Industry: B2BOperations
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Noah YinFounder
Aldrin OngFounder
Jeffrey YumFounder

What Pollen does

Pollen is building AI agents that autonomously improve retention. Pollen monitors every customer account to detect back-tested churn and upsell signals by connecting to your communications, support tickets, product usage, and CRM. Then, Pollen tells your team exactly which accounts need attention today and decides what to do next.

Pollen's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Pollen

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI agents that automate customer success

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

We built an AI system that autonomously watches every customer account for churn and upsell signals by connecting to communications, support tickets, product usage, and CRM data. Instead of just giving data, Pollen tells customer success teams which accounts need attention today and recommends what to do next to improve retention.

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

We live in San Francisco, and the company will stay based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in San Francisco puts us close to our customers and a strong tech ecosystem. It also keeps the team in one place for collaboration.

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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Pollen YC application?

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