Archal YC Application

Summer 2026Active

Archal went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2026 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Summer 2026
Industry: B2BInfrastructure
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Noah SongFounder
Aidan TiruvanFounder

What Archal does

Archal provisions sandboxes with the API environments your CI, tests, and evals need. Your coding agent can start the sandbox & environments, connect to your API integrations, run tests, and inspect state changes. Sandboxes and environments are startable within seconds and take milliseconds to reset.

Archal's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Archal, Summer 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Archal

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The eval platform for autonomous software

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We build clones of third-party SaaS APIs that hold state and behave like the originals. This lets developers test agents and code that interact with these APIs without risking calls to live, real services. Our product stops bugs that could cause irreversible actions in production by catching them early in a safe environment.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in San Francisco, CA and Archal is based here as well. After YC, we will continue to be based in San Francisco.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where our target users cluster. Staying here keeps us close to developers and potential customers working on autonomous software needing safe testing tools.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Archal YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Archal's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Archal would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.