TraceRoot.AI YC Application

Summer 2025Active

TraceRoot.AI went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2025
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 1
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Xinwei HeFounder

What TraceRoot.AI does

TraceRoot is an open-source observability and self-healing layer for AI agents. It captures traces, debug with AI that sees your source code and GitHub history.

TraceRoot.AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

TraceRoot.AI, Summer 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

TraceRoot.AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Open source self-healing layer for AI agents

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

We built TraceRoot to provide an open-source observability and self-healing layer for AI agents. It captures detailed traces from AI workflows and uses AI to debug problems by understanding your source code and GitHub history. This helps engineering and product teams catch and fix issues faster in AI-driven applications.

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

We live 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 most early AI and developer tool users are. Staying here keeps us close to our community and potential partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real TraceRoot.AI YC application?

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