Simantic YC Application

Fall 2026Active

Waterloo

Simantic went through Y Combinator in the Fall 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: Fall 2026
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Location: Waterloo
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Seungmin HongFounder/CEO
Ahnaf ShahriarFounder/CTO

What Simantic does

Simantic is modernizing the embedded firmware industry with hardware simulation developed for the adoption of AI in hardware engineering. Simantic gives both humans and AI the visibility into hardware previously limited by the physical world.

Simantic's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Simantic, Fall 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Simantic

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Firmware simulation for AI agents

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

We are building Simantic, a hardware and firmware simulation platform focused on AI-driven workflows in embedded systems. Simantic provides visibility into hardware for both engineers and AI agents to develop and test firmware without requiring the physical device. Our platform runs code that typically only works on real hardware, allowing both human and AI users to simulate, debug, and iterate on embedded systems faster. Our users are hardware engineers, firmware teams, and AI developers working in electronics, semiconductors, and embedded hardware.

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

We are in Waterloo, ON, Canada, and will be based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Waterloo has a strong engineering talent pool and a history in hardware and embedded systems. It's where our team is already based and has the community and infrastructure we need.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Simantic YC application?

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