LATO
LATO is a YC Summer 2026 (S26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 2.
About LATO
Summary
LATO builds an agent-native research platform for investors, replacing the weeks-long, six-figure process of commercial due diligence. Its agents source and conduct voice interviews with hundreds of domain experts, customers, and operators, then combine those interviews with thousands of public and proprietary documents into a single study. That study feeds a live market simulation investors can query to run scenarios and forecast how a market will move.
Business model
Demo-gated access, pricing not public.
Go-to-market
Sells to investment teams conducting commercial due diligence; buyers engage through a scheduled demo.
From the Y Combinator listing
Agent-native research and simulation platform for investors
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 consumers, experts, and operators. This research grounds a simulation of the market to predict how market participants behave.
Facts
- B2B / B2B
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 2
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
- Tien Chu
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