Browser Use YC Application

Winter 2025Active

Browser Use went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2025
Industry: B2B
Team size: 7
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Magnus MüllerFounder
Gregor ZunicFounder

What Browser Use does

We enable AI to control the browser. Browser-use is the biggest open-source web agent project. We got 40k stars in the last 3 months.

Browser Use's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Browser Use, Winter 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Browser Use

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Open source AI browser agent

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

We built Browser Use, an open-source project that lets AI control a web browser through code. It automates web tasks by interacting with sites dynamically, making it useful for researchers, developers, and businesses needing web automation beyond static scraping.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are already based in San Francisco, where the engineering and community are. Staying here keeps us close to developers and potential customers.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Browser Use YC application?

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