Poly shut down its original 3D asset-generation product in 2023 and pivoted to the current cloud file-browser product.
SourcePublic company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Poly is a Y Combinator S22 startup building an AI-native cloud file browser / personal cloud storage app that replaces Finder/File Explorer with multimodal search, summarization, tagging, sharing, and agentic file actions.
Primary product
Intelligent cloud file browser for personal files and media
Founded
2022
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
Cloud file storage and AI search
Offices
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Business model
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$16M
Latest round
Seed · Nov 2025
Latest amount
$8M
Founders
Co-founder
Investors
Small-team, high-conviction, consensus-oriented culture with a very rigorous and transparent interview process, take-home exercises, deep technical grilling, and strong emphasis on product craftsmanship and engineering depth.
Compensation
YC job postings show salary bands around $150K-$350K and equity around 0.25%-5.00%, depending on role. Some roles explicitly require being in-person 5 days a week in SoMa, San Francisco.
Benefits
Pricing
Freemium subscription with storage tiers: free 100GB, paid 2TB at $10/month, plus 1¢/GB/month over 2TB
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Under $1M annually; LinkedIn estimates revenue around $400K
Estimated monthly visits
65.7K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Poly shut down its original 3D asset-generation product in 2023 and pivoted to the current cloud file-browser product.
SourceTechCrunch · Nov 2025
Launch article for the current Poly product; covers the pivot from the earlier 3D asset business, the AI file browser product, pricing, supported platforms, and the $8M seed round led by Felicis.
GlobeNewswire / Poly · Nov 2025
Company press release announcing the seed round, product positioning, Polyembed-v1, and leadership team including Abhay Agarwal, Samuel Lo, and Alexandre Seo.
NextView Ventures · Nov 2025
Investor blog explaining why NextView backed Poly and describing the product as an intelligent cloud file browser that syncs local files to the cloud.
Hacker News · Nov 2025
Founder's launch post detailing the product, pricing, public drives, multimodal search, and the 2023 shutdown/pivot from the earlier image-generation company.
TechCrunch · Dec 2022
Earlier coverage of Poly's original 3D asset-generation product and its $3.9M seed round.