YC Summer 2026 (S26) company

LATO

Agent-native research and simulation platform for investors

About LATO

The best investments come from conviction, and conviction comes from understanding a market deeply: its customers, its competitors, and where it's heading. Today that understanding is slow and expensive to build. Reaching the right people takes weeks, a commercial study costs $300k+, and each one starts from scratch. LATO does this research end-to-end, combining public data and the fund's own knowledge with first-hand interviews of a market's customers, experts, and operators. This research grounds a simulation of the market to predict how market participants behave.

Public traction evidence

Each signal links to the public source used for attribution.

  1. LinkedIn

    Proud moment for LATO.

    Proud moment for LATO. The founder names LATO and its inclusion in the native Built in Europe campaign post. The YC S26 roster lists Tymek Staniszewski as a LATO founder. The founder names LATO and its inclusion in the native Built in Europe campaign post.

  2. LinkedIn

    100s of people ask me what Y Combinator is like and what we're building with LATO (YC S26).

    100s of people ask me what Y Combinator is like and what we're building with LATO (YC S26). The founder names LATO and YC S26 and demonstrates its expert-research workflow for investors. The YC S26 roster lists Tymek Staniszewski as a LATO founder. The founder names LATO and YC...

  3. LinkedIn

    Investing is complex - multimillion-dollar decisions, fast-moving markets, and never enough time.

    Investing is complex - multimillion-dollar decisions, fast-moving markets, and never enough time. The founder says why the team is building LATO and explains its AI investing workflow inside Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. The YC S26 roster lists Tymek Staniszewski as a LATO...

  4. X

    Think AI runs better expert calls than a human / or I ever could. We are getting fantastic feedback from probably one of the toughest crowds out there (e.g. Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman). Key arguments - It's consistent and never tired - Speaks most languages - Knows as

    Think AI runs better expert calls than a human / or I ever could. We are getting fantastic feedback from probably one of the toughest crowds out there (e.g. Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman). Key arguments - It's consistent and never tired - Speaks most languages - Knows as