Vendo YC Application

Summer 2026Active

San Francisco

Vendo 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: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Location: San Francisco
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Nour ZahzahFounder/CEO
Yousef HelalFounder/CTO

What Vendo does

Vendo is the customization layer that lets your users build their own features and micro-apps directly on top of your product. Rather than waiting on an ever-growing feature backlog, your users can personalize the product to exactly how they work, create their own automations, and integrate hundreds of external tools, all without your team writing a line of code. Everything runs on your existing API, renders natively in your own theme and components, and executes inside secure sandboxes within your existing security guardrails, so your source code is never touched. Companies can plug Vendo into an agent they already have, or deploy a production-ready agent complete with the ability to take actions in the product, generate UI, and draw on a built-in knowledge base. Vendo is open source and installs with a single command, and we work closely with teams to get it running for their product.

Vendo's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Vendo

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Let your users build their own features on your product

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

Vendo is a customization layer that lets users build their own features and micro-apps directly on top of an existing SaaS product. Teams plug Vendo into their product, and users can create automations, UI extensions, and integrations without waiting for more engineering cycles. Everything runs on the existing API, inside secure sandboxes, rendering with the host product's look and feel. Vendo is open source and installs with a single command.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company is based here and will continue to be after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're based in San Francisco because it's where we live and it's the best place for early-stage B2B startups to be close to customers, other founders, and investors.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Vendo YC application?

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