BootLoop YC Application

Summer 2025Active

BootLoop went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2025 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 2025
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Noah Pacik-NelsonFounder
Chris MarkusFounder

What BootLoop does

BootLoop is building the first AI agent to write and test firmware on real hardware. Existing AI coding assistants fail completely with embedded systems, but our agent ingests datasheets, schematics, and other design files to write firmware in your style and automatically test it on your hardware.

BootLoop's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

BootLoop, Summer 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

BootLoop

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Firmware in minutes, not months.

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

We are building an AI agent that writes and tests firmware on real hardware. Unlike existing AI coding assistants that fail with embedded systems, our product reads datasheets and schematics to produce firmware in your exact style and then runs rigorous tests on physical devices.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we are already based, placing us close to hardware engineers and potential customers in embedded systems.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real BootLoop YC application?

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