# Poly

> Poly is an intelligent cloud file browser built for the AI era. It replaces Finder and File Explorer with a natural-language, multimodal interface that stores, tags, summarizes, searches, and generates across terabytes of text, PDFs, docs, images, audio, video, and URLs. Powered by a proprietary embedding model called Polyembed-v1, Poly emerged from stealth in November 2025 with $8M in seed funding led by Felicis. Founded by Abhay Agarwal, the company pivoted from AI 3D-asset generation to reinvent the file system itself.

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Abhay Agarwal (Co-founder & CEO), Sam Young (Co-founder (departed))
- **Team size:** ~3-19 people (YC lists 3; other trackers list up to 19)
- **Products:** Poly (Intelligent Cloud File Browser), Polyembed-v1, Shared Drives & MCP Integration, Poly (legacy) - AI Asset Generation
- **Notable:** Raised $8M seed led by Felicis after two years in stealth (Nov 2025)., Built a proprietary multimodal embedding model, Polyembed-v1., Backed by Y Combinator (S22).

## Products & services

- **Poly (Intelligent Cloud File Browser)** — A cloud-hosted file browser with AI-powered, natural-language multimodal search across text, PDFs, office docs, images, audio, video, and URLs. Auto-tags, summarizes, translates, organizes, renames files and creates folders. Available on web and Mac, with Windows coming soon.
- **Polyembed-v1** — Poly's proprietary embedding model that understands a wide range of content types - text, PDFs, documents, presentations, spreadsheets, audio, video, code, and URLs - powering the platform's semantic search.
- **Shared Drives & MCP Integration** — Collaborative shared drives where teams can query files together, plus a Model Context Protocol server that connects Poly to tools like ChatGPT and Cursor.
- **Poly (legacy) - AI Asset Generation** — The company's original 2022 product: generating 3D textures, materials, and design assets from text prompts. Wound down in 2023 before the pivot to cloud storage.

## Achievements

- Raised $8M seed led by Felicis after two years in stealth (Nov 2025).
- Built a proprietary multimodal embedding model, Polyembed-v1.
- Backed by Y Combinator (S22).
- Offers 100GB free storage - far above typical free tiers.
- Successfully pivoted from AI 3D-asset generation to intelligent cloud storage.

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — Emerged from stealth with $8M seed funding led by Felicis and relaunched as an intelligent cloud file browser with AI search.
- **2025-11** — Launched publicly on web and Mac with 100GB free storage and a $10/month 2TB tier; Windows support announced as coming soon.
- **2023** — Wound down the original AI 3D-asset generation product and entered stealth to rebuild.
- **2022-12** — YC-backed Poly launched AI-generated art and 3D asset tools; raised an initial $3.9M.

## Links

- Website: https://poly.app
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/withpoly/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/with_poly
- GitHub: https://github.com/withpoly

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Last updated: 2026-07-03