YC Spring 2026 (P26) founder

Benjamin Nguyen

Founder of Archer, AI-powered gifting for customer acquisition and retention

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Company

Benjamin Nguyen is listed as a founder of Archer. Archer is the agentic commerce platform for customer acquisition and retention. We help companies deploy AI agents that can automatically purchase, personalize, and deliver physical gifts on behalf of their business. Instead of manually coordinating rewards, swag, meals, experiences, and gifts, companies can give agents budgets, goals, and instructions, allowing them to take action automatically when important business events occur. Today, businesses use Archer to automate corporate gifting across outbound sales, customer onboarding, referrals, partnerships, customer success, and employee milestones. A prospect books a meeting. A customer completes onboarding. A partner generates a referral. An agent understands the context, selects an appropriate gift, purchases it, and handles fulfillment automatically. What makes Archer different is that companies no longer need to manage gifting campaigns manually. Agents continuously monitor what is happening across a business and execute personalized physical experiences at the right moment for the right person. We believe corporate gifting is just the beginning. As AI agents become increasingly capable of understanding business context through CRMs, product data, Slack, Linear, Notion, and other systems, they will become active participants in how companies build relationships, acquire customers, retain users, and grow revenue. For decades, businesses have relied on software to track relationships. We believe the next generation of businesses will rely on AI agents to strengthen them.

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    Founder origin story dropping. I grew up in the backstreets of Coney Island. Lived right across a chained-up liquor store where they treated me like family. The single Asian student out of an entire class of Hispanic and Black students. Growing up, I remember distinctly walking Show more

    Founder origin story dropping. I grew up in the backstreets of Coney Island. Lived right across a chained-up liquor store where they treated me like family. The single Asian student out of an entire class of Hispanic and Black students. Growing up, I remember distinctly walking...

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    Stay tuned for the @archer_money @ycombinator launch tomorrow . It's gonna be epic. Even @TraxNYC is telling you to. The goat of all launch videos!! 0:04 / 0:09

    Stay tuned for the @archer_money @ycombinator launch tomorrow . It's gonna be epic. Even @TraxNYC is telling you to. The goat of all launch videos!! 0:04 / 0:09

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    Cooking something up very, very soon for the launch next week. Stay tuned for @archer_money @ycombinator Archer (YC P26) and Vivek Yanamadula

    Cooking something up very, very soon for the launch next week. Stay tuned for @archer_money @ycombinator Archer (YC P26) and Vivek Yanamadula

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    Reward absolutely anything. AI slop dies today. Physical rewards will impact your users more than any AI personalized message ever could. Quote Y Combinator @ycombinator · May 19 In the age of AI, real world customer experiences matter more than ever. Archer (@archer_money) lets companies reward any behavior with payouts or physical rewards using plain English. “Send a cake when a user fully onboards” or “pay affiliates when deals close.” Archer tracks 0:11 / 0:43

    Reward absolutely anything. AI slop dies today. Physical rewards will impact your users more than any AI personalized message ever could. Quote Y Combinator @ycombinator · May 19 In the age of AI, real world customer experiences matter more than ever. Archer (@archer_money)...

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    Filing an application to move into a new apt in SF for @ycombinator X26 and the leasing agent asked me if I had any dogs moving into the apt, i asked "does my co-founder count? "

    Filing an application to move into a new apt in SF for @ycombinator X26 and the leasing agent asked me if I had any dogs moving into the apt, i asked "does my co-founder count? "

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    Seeing our standup grow from 2 to 5+ fills my heart with joy. Crazy to think this was an idea in Aug to approaching $1m raised, building the most cracked team ever, and changing the landscape of payments and business banking. Stay fucking tuned

    Seeing our standup grow from 2 to 5+ fills my heart with joy. Crazy to think this was an idea in Aug to approaching $1m raised, building the most cracked team ever, and changing the landscape of payments and business banking. Stay fucking tuned

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    You think you’re resilient and can persevere through anything and then you hear @bchesky ’s story and realize some humans are actually just built different

    You think you’re resilient and can persevere through anything and then you hear @bchesky ’s story and realize some humans are actually just built different

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    Agentic commerce will be the premier way humans transact by 2030

    Agentic commerce will be the premier way humans transact by 2030