Standard Machines YC Application
San Francisco
Standard Machines 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
- B2B
- Location
- San Francisco
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2026
Founders
Jacob PeakeFounder/CEO
What Standard Machines does
We build environments and evaluations to train and evaluate models on advanced chip design.
Standard Machines's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Standard Machines, Summer 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Standard Machines
Teaching AI to Design Chips
We're building training environments and evaluation systems to teach AI models advanced chip design. Our product is an environment for training and testing models on chip layout and related design tasks, so AIs can learn to handle the complexity of real semiconductor work. Chip design teams use it to train and evaluate their own AI models for chip layout and improvements.
San Francisco, CA, USA. We'll stay based in San Francisco after YC.
We're in San Francisco because that's where the AI and semiconductor communities are, and where we can be close to customers and talent.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Standard Machines YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Standard Machines's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Standard Machines would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Standard Machines in?
Standard Machines was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2026 batch.
Who founded Standard Machines?
Standard Machines was founded by Jacob Peake.
What does Standard Machines do?
Teaching AI to Design Chips
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
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