About
Aldrin Ong is a software engineer at Pollen pursuing a degree in computer science from UC Berkeley. He previously worked at AWS, where he built AI context retrieval systems and search infrastructure. He has been developing mobile applications since age 15 and has published multiple apps to the App Store.
Founder at PollenYC W26
Intro paths
YC
Aldrin went through Y Combinator (Winter 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Jon Xu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Pollen's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Aldrin can intro founders to Pollen's investors below.
Pollen's investors · 3
Co-founders at Pollen
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Noah YinFounder
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Jeffrey YumFounder