Wafer YC Application
Wafer 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
- 6
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2025
Founders
Emilio AndereFounder
Steven ArellanoFounder
What Wafer does
Wafer builds AI agents that work as autonomous performance engineers, optimizing GPU kernels for AI inference. Our product is serverless and dedicated inference for the world’s fastest open source LLMs, achieved by Wafer's autonomous performance engineers.
Wafer's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Wafer, Summer 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Wafer
AI that makes AI fast
We build AI agents that act as autonomous performance engineers to optimize GPU kernels specifically for AI inference. Our product delivers serverless and dedicated inference for the fastest open source large language models, helping engineering, product, and design teams build faster AI applications without manual kernel tuning.
We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and Wafer will remain based here after YC.
San Francisco is where our team is located and it's the center of AI product and engineering talent we rely on. Staying here keeps us close to customers and partners building open source LLMs.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Wafer YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Wafer's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Wafer would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Wafer in?
Wafer was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2025 batch.
Who founded Wafer?
Wafer was founded by Emilio Andere, Steven Arellano.
What does Wafer do?
AI that makes AI fast
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Wafer's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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