# Boat

[Boat on Hacklab](https://hacklab.so/org/boat)

Startup · 2 people on Hacklab

## Links

- [Website](https://boat.dev/)
- [Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/boat)
- [X](https://x.com/boatdotdev)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/ariana-dot-dev)

## About

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## 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

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anicet-nougaret-b7846b174) · [X](https://x.com/AniC_dev)

### Kirill — Founder/CTO

co-founder @ ascii.dev

[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/luaroncrew/) · [X](https://x.com/luaroncrew)

[Source: Y Combinator](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/boat) · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.

## Current staff

- [Anicet Nougaret](https://hacklab.so/anicet-nougaret) — Founder/CEO (Present)
- [Kirill](https://hacklab.so/kirill) — Founder/CTO (Present)