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Pollen (YC W26) — AI employees trained on your firm's workflows

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Pollen is building AI agents that autonomously improve retention. Pollen monitors every customer account to detect back-tested churn and upsell signals by connecting to your communications, support tickets, product usage, and CRM.

Pollen is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2026 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: AI employees trained on your firm's workflows. The founders listed are Noah Yin (Founder/CEO), Aldrin Ong (Founder/CTO), Jeffrey Yum (Founder/COO) (Y Combinator directory entry, August 7, 2025).

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Pollen

New accelerator entry · 2025-08-07 · the record

Winter 2026
batch
3
people
Early
stage
United States of America
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BatchWinter 2026
Announced2025-08-07
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size3
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Operations
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttps://www.pollen.cx/
Founded2025
YC group partnerJon Xu
Previously known asDaymi

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Pollen is building AI agents that autonomously improve retention. Pollen monitors every customer account to detect back-tested churn and upsell signals by connecting to your communications, support tickets, product usage, and CRM. Then, Pollen tells your team exactly which accounts need attention today and decides what to do next.

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