The Hog YC Application

Fall 2025Active

The Hog went through Y Combinator in the Fall 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: Fall 2025
Industry: B2BMarketing
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Hudson LiaoCEO, Co-founder
Paulo NascimentoCo-founder

What The Hog does

One API to search, enrich, and monitor the web. An agent is only as good as the data it runs on. Most agents and GTM tools today are stuck pulling stale, fragmented data from a dozen different providers, which caps how good their output can ever be. We unify all of it behind one API. One credit-based API covers people data, company data, web search, deep research, news, social signals, and web scraping. Multi-provider waterfall logic routes each call to the best source and falls back automatically, so you get one integration and one bill instead of stitching together Clay, Apollo, Exa, Tavily, and a handful of others. We're building the data layer that agents and GTM teams plug into to find, understand, and reach their customers.

The Hog's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

The Hog, Fall 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

The Hog

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Real-time web intelligence API for AI agents and GTM teams

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

We built a single API that lets AI agents and GTM teams search, enrich, and monitor web data in real time. Instead of hooking up to a dozen disconnected providers like Clay or Apollo, our API uses multi-provider waterfall logic to route each request to the best data source, including company data, people data, news, social signals, web search, and scraping. This gives customers one integration, one bill, and fresher, more complete data powering their tools.

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

Not specified; no fixed location yet.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are remote for now and plan to remain location-agnostic after YC to stay lean and flexible in building our product and serving customers globally.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real The Hog YC application?

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