Embedder YC Application

Summer 2025Active

Embedder 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: 6
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Ethan GibbsFounder
Bob WeiFounder

What Embedder does

Embedder is building an AI coding agent that can write, test, and debug firmware on real hardware.

Embedder's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Embedder

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI Agents for Firmware

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

We are building an AI coding agent that writes, tests, and debugs firmware by interacting with real hardware. Our product automates firmware development tasks that are tedious and error-prone, directly targeting embedded systems engineers who often struggle with slow development cycles and difficult debugging.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, CA. After YC, the company will remain based in San Francisco.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the hardware and AI engineering talent we need and is where we built our initial product and team. The ecosystem here helps us find engineers who understand embedded systems tooling and AI.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Embedder YC application?

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