Sourcebot

Application YC di Sourcebot

Fall 2025Active

Sourcebot ha partecipato a Y Combinator nel batch Fall 2025 come azienda B2B. Sotto: cosa fa l'azienda, chi l'ha fondata e la sua application a YC, ricostruita domanda per domanda nel form reale di YC.

Batch YC
Fall 2025
Settore
B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Dimensione team
3
Stato
Active
Lanciata
2025

Founder

  • Michael Sukkarieh
    Michael SukkariehFounder
  • Brendan Kellam
    Brendan KellamFounder

Cosa fa Sourcebot

Sourcebot is an open source code understanding platform for massive codebases. We’re used by thousands of engineers in some of the largest companies in the world, including NVIDIA, Red Hat, Wikimedia, and Arista Networks. Understanding code, not writing it, is the primary bottleneck for large engineering teams. For developers, this means onboarding onto complex codebases faster. For AI agents, it means getting the necessary code context to minimize hallucinations and maximize cohesion within the wider codebase. Sourcebot solves this by giving developers and AI agents the ability to regex search across millions of lines of code instantly, as well as ask questions across thousands of repos using any flagship reasoning model. Being open source and on-prem, we can get deployed in enterprises within minutes before other tools even get approval. We met a decade ago at McGill University and have been building together full time for over 2 years. We’ve personally felt the pain of understanding large codebases while working at Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, Google, and Meta.

Application YC di Sourcebot, ricostruita

Domanda per Y Combinator

Sourcebot, batch Fall 2025. Le vere domande del form, risposte da dati pubblici.

  1. Founders2
  2. Company7
  3. Progress7
  4. Idea4
  5. Equity3
  6. Curious2
  7. Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Sourcebot

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Helping humans and AI agents understand massive codebases

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

We're building an open source platform that helps developers and AI agents understand large codebases. Our product allows instant regex search across millions of lines of code and lets users ask questions across thousands of repositories using powerful reasoning models. It deploys on-prem quickly so enterprises can approve it faster than other tools.

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

We currently live in San Francisco, CA, and the company is based here and would remain here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We live in San Francisco where a lot of our customers and potential partners are, plus it's a hub for AI and developer tooling startups. Staying here makes sense given our connections and team location.

21 risposte in più nell'application completa

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Domande Frequenti

Questa è l'application YC reale di Sourcebot?

No. Y Combinator mantiene private le application inviate. Questa è una ricostruzione: le domande del form YC reale, a cui si è risposto usando i dati pubblici di Sourcebot (note di lancio, background dei founder, descrizione del prodotto). Mostra come un'azienda come Sourcebot si presenterebbe a YC, non il testo che hanno inviato.

A quale batch YC apparteneva Sourcebot?

Sourcebot apparteneva al batch Fall 2025 di Y Combinator.

Chi ha fondato Sourcebot?

Sourcebot è stato fondato da Michael Sukkarieh, Brendan Kellam.

Cosa fa Sourcebot?

Helping humans and AI agents understand massive codebases

Come leggo la ricostruzione completa della application?

Crea un account Round Funded gratuito. La versione completa di 26 risposte della application di Sourcebot, e di ogni altro batch YC, è in YC Insights.

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