RASPIRE YC Application

Spring 2026Active

RASPIRE went through Y Combinator in the Spring 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: Spring 2026
Industry: B2BSecurity
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Kareem SelimCo-Founder & CEO
Hassan MostafaCo-Founder & CTO

What RASPIRE does

RASPIRE is a mobile threat defense platform with autonomous threat response that protects Android and iOS applications post-compilation without SDKs, code changes, or complex integrations. It adds advanced runtime security layers including anti-reverse engineering, fraud prevention, API attestation, and live threat monitoring against real-time attacks.

RASPIRE's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

RASPIRE, Spring 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

RASPIRE

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

App Security at AI Speed.

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

We built a mobile threat defense platform that protects Android and iOS apps after they are compiled. Our product adds runtime security layers like anti-reverse engineering, fraud prevention, API attestation, and live threat monitoring without requiring SDKs or code changes.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and built the company. The local security and AI talent plus proximity to potential customers makes it the right home.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real RASPIRE YC application?

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