Pluto YC Application

Summer 2026Active

San Francisco

Pluto went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2026
Industry: B2BRecruiting and Talent
Location: San Francisco
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Sahil SethFounder/CEO
Maki PotamianosFounder/CPO
Tony XavierFounder/CTO

What Pluto does

Resumes made careers readable. LinkedIn made them filterable. Pluto makes them searchable. Professionals spend 10 minutes talking to Pluto's voice agent about what they've done, what they're great at, and what they want next. Pluto turns that into a structured picture of who someone actually is, capturing the competency and intent that resumes and LinkedIn don't. When companies and AI agents go looking to hire, Pluto makes the right people discoverable. 27K+ professionals have shared their career context with Pluto, and 50+ companies, including Mercor, Warp, and Rho, use it to find and reach the right people. Long-term, we're building the LinkedIn for agents.

Pluto's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Pluto, Summer 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Pluto

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

LinkedIn for agents

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

Pluto is a conversational AI platform that interviews professionals for about 10 minutes, turning their career stories into structured profiles. Unlike resumes or LinkedIn, Pluto captures what someone is truly good at and what they're looking for next. Companies and AI agents use Pluto to search for and reach out to the right candidates based on real competency and intent. We're building the LinkedIn for agents.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team lives and where the tech and talent ecosystems are strongest for AI and recruiting startups. It's important to stay close to both customers and partners.

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 Pluto YC application?

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