Y Combinator Launch · Mar 2026
YC launch describing Polymath’s simulated worlds for long-horizon agents, including running apps, real tools, and evolving tasks that mirror real work.
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Updated Jul 30, 2026
Polymath is a San Francisco-based applied research/data lab building simulation environments and benchmarks for training and evaluating long-horizon autonomous AI agents, with an emphasis on reliability, autonomy, and frontier-model collaboration.
Primary product
Simulation environments and benchmarks for long-horizon AI agents, including Horizon-SWE
Founded
2026
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
AI agent infrastructure / reinforcement learning environments
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Small, research-heavy team focused on safe, highly capable AI; hiring engineers, researchers, and operators to build long-horizon agent infrastructure with frontier model labs.
Compensation
Public job postings list Member of Technical Staff roles at $150k–$300k plus equity and a Strategic Projects Lead at $150k–$250k plus equity; the AI Research Resident role is remote contract and does not list pay.
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Y Combinator Launch · Mar 2026
YC launch describing Polymath’s simulated worlds for long-horizon agents, including running apps, real tools, and evolving tasks that mirror real work.
Forbes · Mar 2026
Forbes highlighted Polymath among the YC batch, framing it as infrastructure for AI agents through simulated environments where agents rehearse real-world workflows before production.
Polymath blog · Feb 2026
Introduced Horizon-SWE, a benchmark for long-horizon, multi-tool software engineering tasks in production-grade environments, measuring autonomous-agent performance across planning, coding, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Polymath blog
Polymath said it raised an $8M seed round to build the environment layer for training and evaluating autonomous agents, with support from Base10, Cervin Ventures, SurgePoint Capital, Founders Future, Berkeley Frontier Fund, Y Combinator, and other angels.