Proliferate YC Application

Summer 2025Active

Proliferate went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2025 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: Summer 2025
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Pablo HansenFounder

What Proliferate does

Manage a fleet of agents locally or in the cloud. 100% open source and free to use. Built to help you do your life's work.

Proliferate's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Proliferate

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Manage a team of agents from your desktop

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

We built Proliferate to let users manage fleets of software agents locally or in the cloud. It's open source and free, focusing on enabling anyone to run and coordinate multiple agents to handle complex tasks without complicated setups.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we are now and where most early users are. It's a strong place for developer tools and access to a technical network.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Proliferate YC application?

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