Zarna YC Application
Zarna went through Y Combinator in the Fall 2025 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
- Fall 2025
- Industry
- B2BFinance and Accounting
- Team size
- 4
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2025
Founders
Rishabh DhariwalFounder
Vivan AgrawalFounder
Hrishi JoshiFounder
Rakesh MehtaFounder
What Zarna does
Zarna is private equity’s first AI associate class. Our agents plug directly into your firm’s data and work like a deal team that never sleeps. Zarna’s agents analyze CIMs, build LBOs, update CRMs, draft IC memos, & act based on decades of proprietary firm knowledge. The result: investors spend less time buried in decks and spreadsheets, and more time on judgment, relationships, and winning deals.
Zarna's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Zarna, Fall 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Zarna
AI Associates for Private Capital
We build AI agents that plug into private equity firms' data and work like deal teams that never sleep. Our product reads CIM documents, builds LBO models, updates CRMs, drafts investment committee memos, and executes actions grounded in decades of firm-specific proprietary knowledge. The aim is to reduce the manual grunt work so investors can focus on judgment and relationships.
We all live in San Francisco, and the company will remain based here after YC.
San Francisco is where our team lives and where most private equity firms we target are headquartered or have offices. Being here helps us stay close to customers and talent.
21 more answers in the full application
Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Zarna YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Zarna's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Zarna would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Zarna in?
Zarna was part of the Y Combinator Fall 2025 batch.
Who founded Zarna?
Zarna was founded by Rishabh Dhariwal, Vivan Agrawal, Hrishi Joshi, Rakesh Mehta.
What does Zarna do?
AI Associates for Private Capital
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Zarna's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
