Trident YC Application

Summer 2026Active

San Francisco

Trident 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: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Junaid MahmoodFounder/CEO
Dekai LiFounder/CTO

What Trident does

Trident is the standard for modern day security. its an agentic pentester that chains vulnerabilities together like a real attacker mapping verified attack paths across AWS, Azure, GCP, web apps, and APIs. Run AI attacks and get fixes. Get started today: tridentsecurity.io

Trident's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Trident

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Autonomous AI pentester maps attack paths. Fixes fast.

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

Trident is an autonomous offensive security agent. It acts like a real attacker: it chains together vulnerabilities across AWS, Azure, GCP, web apps, and APIs and maps out verified attack paths. We run AI-driven attacks, show teams how they'd be breached, and deliver fixes.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, CA. The company is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're in San Francisco because this is where the best talent, customers, and investors for security and AI companies are.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Trident YC application?

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