Trellis YC Application
Trellis went through Y Combinator in the Spring 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
- Spring 2026
- Industry
- B2BOperations
- Team size
- 5
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2026
Founders
Lodovico BenvenutiFounder
Jan SahagunFounder
What Trellis does
Trellis is building toward a new hospitality platform: one that does not just help guests find homes, but actually operates them with agents. Our first wedge is short-term rental property managers, replacing their fragmented stack across guest messages, tasks, cleaners, maintenance, vendors, and owner updates with agents that run operations end-to-end. In two months, we’ve grown to $500k ARR across 35 customers and 3000 listings, growing around 15% week over week, with one customer already running day-to-day operations with no human involved.
Trellis's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Trellis, Spring 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Trellis
The platform where short-term rentals run themselves
We're building a platform for short-term rental property managers that automates operations end-to-end. Instead of juggling dozens of tools for guest messages, cleaning schedules, maintenance, and owner communication, Trellis replaces that entire stack with operational agents that run things automatically. This means managers can scale without adding staff or overhead.
We live in San Francisco, and Trellis is based here as well. We plan to keep the company in San Francisco after YC.
San Francisco has the concentration of technical talent and proximity to early customers in the short-term rental space. Being here helps us iterate fast and build strong relationships with property managers in the Bay Area.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Trellis YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Trellis's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Trellis would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Trellis in?
Trellis was part of the Y Combinator Spring 2026 batch.
Who founded Trellis?
Trellis was founded by Lodovico Benvenuti, Jan Sahagun.
What does Trellis do?
The platform where short-term rentals run themselves
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Trellis's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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