Instaplay YC Application
San Francisco
Instaplay went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2026 batch as a Consumer 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
- ConsumerGaming
- Location
- San Francisco
- Team size
- 4
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2026
Founders
Akhil AggarwalFounder/CEO
Frank LiuFounder/CTO
Gary WuCofounder
What Instaplay does
Over 25k creators and 130k players are on Instaplay, playing and making games. We work with the leading frontier labs to improve their game generation and coding capabilities.
Instaplay's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Instaplay, Summer 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Instaplay
AI-native gaming platform: every game is an RL environment
Instaplay is an AI-driven platform where anyone can play, create, and experiment with games as reinforcement learning environments. We give creators and labs tools to auto-generate, modify, and code new game worlds, which can be interacted with by both humans and AI agents. Our platform is being used by a growing community of creators and frontier AI labs to push what is possible with game generation and AI playing.
San Francisco, CA, USA. The company will remain based in San Francisco after YC.
We're based in San Francisco because that's where the most ambitious AI and game development is happening, and it's also where our team currently lives. The local network and access to frontier labs matter for our work.
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 Instaplay YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Instaplay's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Instaplay would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Instaplay in?
Instaplay was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2026 batch.
Who founded Instaplay?
Instaplay was founded by Akhil Aggarwal, Frank Liu, Gary Wu.
What does Instaplay do?
AI-native gaming platform turning every game into an RL environment
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Instaplay's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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