Pennant
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About Pennant
YC company profile
The World Model for Corporate Governance
Led by former institutional proxy voters and technologists with a collective 20+ years of experience, Pennant gives institutional investors, public companies, and corporate advisors voting and governance intelligence to act on their own principles at scale.
- YC batch: Summer 2026
- Founded: 2026
- Team size: 2
- Location: New York City, NY
- Country: US
- Status: Active
- Industry: Fintech
- Stage: Early
- Tags: Fintech, Investing, AI
- YC partner: Brad Flora
Founders
Ryan Nowicki Stewart — Founder/CEO
Co-Founder at Pennant. 10+ years asset management, proxy voting & shareholder activism industry experience across PJT, State Street and BlackRock. Palantir Startup Fellowship Cohort 002. Cornell U. Economic Club of NY. Hoover Institution.
Tomas Taylor — Founder/CTO
Co-Founder at Pennant. Previously PM at BlackRock. Founded Mindware, an agent tooling infrastructure startup, before MCP. Also co-founded ClawCon, the fastest-growing community for Personal AI.
Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.