machine0 YC Application

Summer 2026Active

San Francisco

machine0 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: B2BInfrastructure
Location: San Francisco
Team size: 1
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Barnaby MaletFounder/CEO

What machine0 does

machine0 is a CLI for agent compute: `machine0 new mybox` gives your agent a full cloud VM, billed by the minute, from small up to 60 vCPU / 240 GB and 8×H100s. Agents drive it themselves via CLI or MCP. Agent workloads are moving from ephemeral to always-on. A coding agent working on a hard feature runs 6-8 hours. Auto-research agents run for days. machine0 is the environment in which these agents run.

machine0's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

machine0, Summer 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

machine0

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AWS for Agents

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

We built machine0, a CLI that spins up cloud VMs for agents with one command: `machine0 new mybox`. It gives agentic AI workloads access to dedicated compute from small machines up to 60 vCPU / 240GB RAM and 8×H100s, all billed by the minute. Agents interact with these environments entirely headlessly, via CLI or MCP. We serve developers building and running coding agents, research agents, and any long-running agentic workloads that need always-available infra.

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

San Francisco, CA, USA. The company would remain based in San Francisco after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is the center of AI infrastructure and where most agent-development happens, so it makes sense to be here for access to talent and early users.

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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real machine0 YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from machine0's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like machine0 would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.