Stage YC Application

Spring 2026Active

Stage 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

Charles PanFounder
Dean StratakosFounder

What Stage does

Stage is a code review platform designed to help engineers better understand and review AI generated code. Engineering teams are shipping faster than ever with coding agents, but now they’re drowning in an endless backlog of PRs to review. Stage reorganizes the code review process around how engineers naturally read changes, enabling your team to review (and merge!) PRs 5x faster than GitHub.

Stage's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Stage

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Code review platform for humans and agents

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

We built Stage to help engineers review AI-generated code faster and with better understanding. It reorganizes the code review process around how engineers naturally read code changes, letting teams clear PR backlogs five times faster than on GitHub.

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

We live in San Francisco and Stage will be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we both live and where a lot of engineering teams work. Being here keeps us close to our users and the developer community we serve.

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 Stage YC application?

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