Prized YC Application
San Francisco
Prized 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
- B2BEngineering, Product and Design
- Location
- San Francisco
- Team size
- 2
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2026
Founders
Hudson GriffithFounder/CEO
Marinos EliadesFounder/CTO
What Prized does
Prized is a cloud development environment that feels local on your Mac. Developers get a dedicated, persistent machine with their repos, dependencies, and tools already configured. Files sync into a real local folder, remote ports appear on localhost, and terminals persist through tmux, so developers and coding agents can keep working even after the laptop closes. Machines can be resized or cloned as workloads grow, without rebuilding the development environment.
Prized's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Prized, Summer 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Prized
A cloud devbox that feels local
Prized is a cloud development environment for Mac users. Each developer gets a persistent cloud machine with their repos, dependencies, and tools already set up. Files sync into a real local folder, remote ports show up on localhost, and terminals persist so work doesn't get interrupted. You can resize or clone your dev environment as your workload grows without rebuilding everything.
We live in San Francisco, CA now, and the company will stay based here after YC.
San Francisco is where our team is and where most of our users are. Being here keeps us close to the developer community and potential customers.
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 Prized YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Prized's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Prized would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Prized in?
Prized was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2026 batch.
Who founded Prized?
Prized was founded by Hudson Griffith, Marinos Eliades.
What does Prized do?
A cloud devbox that feels local
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Prized's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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