Pennant joins YC with AI software for institutional proxy voting
The two-person startup says its early customers include a large US public pension plan, a top law firm and governance advisors.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Y Combinator
Why it matters
Pennant is testing whether domain-specific AI can loosen a proxy-advisory duopoly by giving investors custom policy tools without a JPMorgan-scale internal build.
Ryan Nowicki Stewart and Tomas Taylor have taken Pennant, their AI platform for institutional proxy voting, into Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch, betting that investors want to set their own governance policies without building the infrastructure themselves.…