Sparkles YC Application

Winter 2026Active

Sparkles went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2026
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 1
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Ai Daniil BekirovFounder

What Sparkles does

Sparkles is like Lovable for existing projects, so even Sharon from Marketing can change the button styling on the front page without going back and forth with the dev team. Someone technical connects their GitHub to Sparkles, sets up the repository and environment variables, and then anyone on the team with a @yourcompany.com email can log in on Sparkles and create pull requests without needing to know what Git is.

Sparkles's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Sparkles, Winter 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Sparkles

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Make everyone on your team an engineer

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

We built Sparkles to let anyone on a team create pull requests without knowing Git. A team member with technical access connects their GitHub repo and environment variables to Sparkles. Then anyone with a company email can log in and submit changes - like editing button styling - without the usual developer handoff. It bridges the gap between non-technical teammates and the codebase.

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

I live in San Francisco, CA, and the company will be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're based in San Francisco because that's where the technical ecosystem and early users we interact with are. It keeps us close to engineers and product people who understand our problem space.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Sparkles YC application?

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