Replicas YC Application

Spring 2026Active

Replicas went through Y Combinator in the Spring 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: Spring 2026
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Saai AroraFounder/CTO
Connor LoiFounder

What Replicas does

Replicas is a background coding agent that allows you to delegate tasks to Claude Code or Codex from Slack, Linear, GitHub, and more. Each task works inside of a sandboxed virtual machine, allowing teams to heavily parallelize work and burn through tickets. Replicas agents output higher quality PRs via feedback loops - each task automatically is notified and fixes CI failures and reads all code reviews. With Environments, engineering teams can configure agents to run their entire codebase locally, verify its work, and provide preview URLs.

Replicas's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Replicas, Spring 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Replicas

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Run any coding agent harness in the cloud

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

Replicas lets teams delegate coding tasks to agents like Claude Code or Codex inside sandboxed VMs. These agents run in parallel, fix CI failures automatically, and read code reviews to produce higher quality PRs. Engineering teams use Replicas within Slack, Linear, GitHub, and other tools to burn through tickets faster and preview changes in their own environments.

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 we are based now and where most early engineering and developer tool customers are. It's also convenient for YC.

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 Replicas YC application?

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