StartupY Combinator (W26)
Terminal Use
Launched as "Vercel for filesystem-based agents"; now rebuilds whole departments to run AI-first.
Terminal Use launched on Hacker News in March 2026 as "Vercel for filesystem-based agents", hosting agents that work through files and a shell. It has since pivoted: its site now offers "Whole departments, rebuilt to run AI-first" for construction, logistics, manufacturing and retail. Y Combinator W26.
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San Francisco, CA · Est. 2023
Conversational AI agents for customer experience.
Sierra, co-founded by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, builds production conversational agents that resolve real customer issues with guardrails, evaluation and human escalation — a template for deploying vertical agents at the enterprise edge.
~$10B valuation (Oct 2025)
Prague, Czechia · Est. 2023
Open-source sandboxes for running AI-generated code.
E2B gives agents secure, isolated cloud micro-VMs to execute code and commands — the execution runtime layer of the harness, used by many coding and data-analysis agents.
Est. 2023
Elastic sandboxes for running AI-generated code.
Daytona provides secure, OCI-compatible sandbox 'computers' that spin up in under 90ms — with snapshots for persistent agent state. In 2026 it moved core development to a private codebase while continuing to run as a commercial platform.
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Verified Oct 29, 2026