dari.dev YC Application

Fall 2025Active

dari.dev went through Y Combinator in the Fall 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: Fall 2025
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Avyay VaradarajanFounder
Benjamin HongFounder

What dari.dev does

We let developers deploy AI agents as API endpoints with built-in tools, sandboxes, and durable execution. Agents maintain state, run long-lived workflows, and handle retries automatically.

dari.dev's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

dari.dev, Fall 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

dari.dev

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The Production Layer for AI Agents

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

We built a platform that lets developers deploy AI agents as API endpoints with built-in tools like sandboxes and automatic retries. Our agents maintain state and run long-lived workflows, so engineers can build complex, fault-tolerant AI workflows without managing infrastructure.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA and plan to base the company here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our network is and where AI and developer tool talent congregate. Being here helps us get early customers and hire.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real dari.dev YC application?

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