smol machines
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About smol machines
YC company profile
Ship software faster with portable, self contained virtual machines.
Smol machines solve the problem of "but app works on my machine" by shipping the machine.
Smol machine enables devs to ship a lightweight virtual machine with any software, similar to how Electron ships an entire browser with the web app.
- YC batch: Spring 2026
- Founded: 2026
- Team size: 1
- Location: San Francisco
- Country: US
- Status: Active
- Industry: B2B
- Stage: Early
- YC partner: Pete Koomen
Founders
BinBin He — Founder/CEO
Building the next generation cloud service that's like a baby of lambda and ec2. Using a new primitive that combines the isolation of a VM with speed and flexibility of containers.
Recently was at AWS.
Worked at ECS|Fargate|FargateOnFirecracker for ~4 years.
ECS is largest container service in the world.
Founding engineer of ECS managed instances.
Before that, spent another ~4years in Infra in startups, NASA.
Helped decomission Terra, Aqua, Aura satellites back into earth.
Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.