StarSling YC Application

Spring 2025Active

StarSling went through Y Combinator in the Spring 2025 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 2025
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Yonas BeshawredCo-founder & CEO
Daniel WorkuCo-founder & CTO

What StarSling does

StarSling is building an AI-native DevOps platform for developers that ship, starting with CI. StarSling Runners are fast GitHub Actions runners with AI agents that continuously improve your build speeds by more than 80%.

StarSling's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

StarSling, Spring 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

StarSling

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Self-Driving CI

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

We are building StarSling, an AI-native DevOps platform focused on CI. Our product uses AI agents to run and optimize GitHub Actions workflows, speeding up builds by over 80% through continuous performance improvements. It's for developers who want faster feedback loops and less waiting on CI without complex manual optimization.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where the engineering and dev community we serve is concentrated. Being here gives us direct access to users and talent.

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 StarSling YC application?

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