CoArena YC Application
San Francisco
CoArena 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
- B2BEngineering, Product and Design
- Location
- San Francisco
- Team size
- 2
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2026
Founders
Prateek JannuFounder/CEO
Nitish KovuruFounder
What CoArena does
CoArena is a live arena where anyone can use the world's top computer-use models racing two of them on the same real computer task and judging which one did it better. Every battle becomes something the AI labs can't build themselves, an honest test of their agents on real work, and the data to make them better.
CoArena's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
CoArena, Summer 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
CoArena
Crowdsourced benchmark for real computer-use tasks.
CoArena is a live competitive arena for testing computer-use AIs. We let users run two different AI agents head-to-head on the same real computer task, then judge which one performed better. Every match generates a datapoint that AI labs can't build themselves: an honest human-evaluated benchmark on real workflows. Our product is an open, continuous benchmarking engine and dataset for companies building agents for actual computer use.
We are based in San Francisco, CA, and the company will remain here after YC.
San Francisco is the center of AI work and most of our early users and collaborators are here. Being local keeps us close to the community we build for.
21 more answers in the full application
Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real CoArena YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from CoArena's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like CoArena would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was CoArena in?
CoArena was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2026 batch.
Who founded CoArena?
CoArena was founded by Prateek Jannu, Nitish Kovuru.
What does CoArena do?
The biggest crowdsourced benchmark for Computer-Use
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of CoArena's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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