Runtime YC Application

Spring 2026Active

Runtime 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: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Gus TrigosFounder
Carlos VolanteFounder

What Runtime does

Runtime (runtm.com) gives engineering teams control and visibility to enable anyone in their org to use coding agents securely. Eng leaders rolling out coding agents have no way to see what's happening, set boundaries, or safely let non-engineers use them. We provide sandboxed environments, session-level observability, and configurable guardrails so anyone on your team can ship with coding agents without breaking prod. We're live with fast-growing YC scaleups empowering their Engineers, PMs, designers, marketers, and ops to contribute to their codebase or build prod-grade zero-to-one apps.

Runtime's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Runtime

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Sandboxed coding agents for teams

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

We built Runtime to give engineering teams control and visibility over coding agents. Our product creates sandboxed environments with session-level observability and guardrails so anyone on a team - engineers, PMs, designers, marketers, ops - can safely use coding agents to write or modify code without risking production stability.

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

We live in San Francisco and will base Runtime here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our users and ecosystem live. Being close to early customers and other startups using coding agents helps us iterate rapidly and build a product that fits real workflows.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Runtime YC application?

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