Corelayer YC Application

Winter 2026Active

Corelayer went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2026
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Mitch RadhuberFounder
Shipra JhaFounder

What Corelayer does

Corelayer is the AI-native platform for production software support, built for data-heavy, regulated industries like finance and healthcare. It continuously monitors alerts, logs, infrastructure, and underlying data for issues and uses agents to debug and suggest fixes. We're helping teams at companies ranging from growth-stage fintechs to S&P 500 financial institutions spend less time on support and more on high-leverage work.

Corelayer's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Corelayer, Winter 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Corelayer

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI on-call engineer for regulated industries

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

We're building an AI-native platform that automates production software support specifically for data-heavy, regulated industries like finance and healthcare. Our product monitors alerts, logs, infrastructure, and the underlying data automatically. It uses AI agents to diagnose issues and suggest fixes so engineering teams spend less time firefighting and more time building features.

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

We live in San Francisco and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we and our early customers are. It's a hub for fintech and enterprise software, which aligns directly with our initial market focus.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Corelayer YC application?

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