Traceforce YC Application

Summer 2026Active

San Francisco

Traceforce 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: B2BSecurity
Location: San Francisco
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Xia HuaFounder/CEO
Varun WadhwaFounder/CTO

What Traceforce does

AI apps such as ChatGPT and Claude have become part of everyone's daily workflow, but they introduce new security risks that traditional security tools weren't built to handle. Security teams at companies from startups to Fortune 500s, are struggling to keep up. Traceforce gives a company’s security team visibility of how AI apps are being used across company’s devices, and the ability to detect and prevent security breaches and unsafe actions as early as possible.

Traceforce's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Traceforce

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

CrowdStrike for AI Agents

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

We built Traceforce because AI apps like ChatGPT and Claude have become fixtures in everyone's workflow, and security teams have no visibility or control over how those tools are used across company devices. Legacy cybersecurity solutions can't monitor or enforce safe usage of AI apps. With Traceforce, security teams see exactly how AI tools are being used in their organization, detect unsafe actions or data leaks in real time, and actively prevent breaches before they escalate.

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

We are based in San Francisco, CA, and we plan to continue building the company from here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is the center of both AI and enterprise security. It gives us access to early customers, the right technical network, and a talent pool that understands both B2B SaaS and security.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Traceforce YC application?

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