Valence YC Application

Winter 2026Active

Valence went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2026 batch as a Fintech 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: Winter 2026
Industry: FintechConsumer Finance
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Neo WangFounder
Daniel Kasabov-NouvionFounder
Arthur ZhouFounder

What Valence does

Valence is a unified trading platform for prediction markets. We provide infrastructure to aggregate and execute contracts across Kalshi, Polymarket, and other platforms, surface arbitrage and mispricing opportunities in real time, and give systematic traders the API and backtesting tools they need to build and execute data-driven strategies on anything.

Valence's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Valence, Winter 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Valence

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Unified prediction markets trading platform

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

We built a unified trading platform that aggregates and executes contracts across multiple prediction market platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket. Our product surfaces arbitrage and mispricing opportunities in real time and provides an API with backtesting tools so systematic traders can build and execute data-driven strategies on these markets.

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 where we are based and where most of our users and team are. Being here keeps us close to fintech and crypto infrastructure talent and partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Valence YC application?

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