Terminal Use YC Application
Terminal Use 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
- B2BInfrastructure
- Team size
- 4
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2026
Founders
Vivek RajaFounder
Filip BaluchaFounder
Stavros FilosidisFounder
What Terminal Use does
Terminal Use is an orchestration platform for background agents. Purpose-built for agents that use filesystems. Our platform is CLI-first, making it easy for your coding agents to experiment and continuously improve your deployed agents.
Terminal Use's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Terminal Use, Winter 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Terminal Use
Vercel for background agents
We are building an orchestration platform specifically for background agents that work with filesystems. Our product is CLI-first, allowing developers to quickly deploy, experiment with, and improve coding agents that run in the background. It solves the problem of managing and iterating on these agents efficiently, which existing platforms don't address well because they focus on frontend or web apps, not CLI-driven background processes.
We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.
San Francisco is where we live, and it's a hub for developer tooling startups. Staying here lets us tap into local talent and potential customers who understand complex infrastructure platforms for developers.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Terminal Use YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Terminal Use's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Terminal Use would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Terminal Use in?
Terminal Use was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2026 batch.
Who founded Terminal Use?
Terminal Use was founded by Vivek Raja, Filip Balucha, Stavros Filosidis.
What does Terminal Use do?
Vercel for background agents
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Terminal Use's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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