Oasive left stealth with Y Combinator backing on September 23, 2026, founder Anaïs Howland announced in a post on X. The company says it helps bond investors find opportunities, compare investments and test risk before putting on a trade.
Oasive describes its product as a unified fixed-income research, analysis and valuation platform for institutional professionals. According to Oasive's site, the platform includes a research dashboard, AI market analysis called Ask Oasive, an MBS dashboard, valuation and scenario analysis, and security screening.
The company was founded in 2025 and is based in San Francisco, according to its Y Combinator company profile. YC lists Oasive in its Fall 2026 batch, with Howland as its sole founder and CEO and a team size of one.
Howland previously worked as a quant analyst at Wells Fargo on a $350B agency MBS portfolio, a PM on Google Treasury's $17B MBS/ABS portfolio, and an AI product lead at Google on Search and Gemini, Oasive says.
Oasive offers a free tier with two macro/rates reports monthly and three chat queries. Macro & Rates costs $200 per user a month with a 14-day trial, while the Agency MBS Platform costs $12,000 per user a year with a one-year commitment.
The company's current offerings are Macro and Rates Research and an MBS Platform. Traders in municipal bonds, ABS and corporate bonds can join early access. No funding amount has been disclosed, and Y Combinator is the only stated backer.
