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Trellis (YC P26) Pitch Deck & how grew to $614K ARR in 6 weeks

A Teardown of the Fastest-Growing YC Startup That Hit $614K in ARR in Six Weeks Selling Agents Into Short-Term Rentals

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Guillermo Flor
Jun 20, 2026
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Trellis went from $0 to $614K in ARR in six weeks.

It did it in June. Peak season, World Cup on, property managers buried in turnovers and telling every vendor who calls to circle back in October, because nobody re-platforms the system during their highest-revenue weeks.

Trellis grew 15% week over week anyway, with 100% trial conversion, the fastest climb from zero in its entire YC batch.

So what is it. Trellis sells property managers an agent that runs their short-term rental operation end to end: messaging guests, dispatching cleaners and maintenance, handling the back office. It replaces the stack of five separate tools and it goes after a slice of the market no software has ever really owned.

πŸ”Ž Below is the full teardown: the market, the product, the team and the bet that carries Trellis from running the operation to owning the booking itself

Inside you will find:

  1. Trellis YC P26 Pitch Deck

  2. Why $42B of a $105B Market Has Never Had a Real Owner

  3. The Traction That Isn’t Supposed to Happen in June

  4. The Agent That Builds a Different Product for Every Operator

  5. The People Building It, and Why It’s Them

  6. The Bet on Owning the Stay, and the Math to $100M


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