Boat

YC company profile

The best cloud VMs for billions of agents

Problem

Humans used to need laptops to do their work. Now they prompt agents instead, and those agents need computers too: always-on, in large quantities, and with unlimited capabilities.

Building and maintaining that yourself is far from trivial.

Solution

Boat provides powerful, simple, permissive Ubuntu VMs in the cloud. In a sandbox, an agent can work for long periods on code or on knowledge work like legal, research, reporting, and auditing.

Why Boat and not any other cloud VM?

1. It is ready out of the box: every sandbox ships with a desktop, chrome, languages, docker, snapshots, and templates, plus a CLI, SDK, API, and control pane for your fleet.
2. It is permissive and paradigm agnostic: any number of agents can use any number of sandboxes. Agents can run inside or use sandboxes as an external tool.
3. It is expertly crafted: we manage everything from the individual CPU to the orchestration software, which makes sandboxes stable, persistent, scalable, and secure.
4. It is the best performance and price in town: our CPUs rank first on HPC benchmarks, and sandboxes are typically 9x to 18x cheaper than other leading sandboxes.

Further notes

Sandboxes are hosted in Europe, which keeps prices low, and more regions are coming. Unless compliance requires it, agents don't notice the region they run in.

• YC batch: Fall 2026
• Founded: 2024
• Team size: 3
• Location: Paris, France
• Country: FR
• Status: Active
• Industry: B2B
• Stage: Early
• Tags: Developer Tools, Cloud Computing
• YC partner: Andrew Miklas

Founders

Anicet Nougaret — Founder/CEO

Founder at Ascii

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Kirill — Founder/CTO

co-founder @ ascii.dev

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Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.