TectoAI YC Application

Summer 2025Active

TectoAI 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: B2B
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Niosha Afsharikia, PhDCo-founder & CEO
Roksana BaleshzarCo-founder & CTO

What TectoAI does

We help your company identify roles that can be filled by agentic AI tools, onboard them quickly, monitor their performance and behavior post deployment, ensure they remain compliant, and aligned with regulations. Tecto is building the governance platform for managing the AI stack!

TectoAI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

TectoAI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

A Platform for AI Governance

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

We are building a governance platform that helps companies identify roles AI agents can take over, onboard those AI tools quickly, monitor their behavior and performance after deployment, and ensure ongoing compliance with regulations. Our product explicitly manages the full AI stack within organizations, which is new and complex territory.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is home to many AI startups and regulatory challenges around AI tools. Being here means we are close to customers, partners, and tech talent who understand the AI governance space.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real TectoAI YC application?

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