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smol machines

Software & Internet
United States United States, San Francisco, CA, USA
Founded 2026 · 1-10 employees

About smol machines

smol machines lets developers ship software inside portable, self-contained virtual machines, solving the works-on-my-machine problem by shipping the machine itself, much as Electron bundles a browser with a web app.

Latest Funding

Seed
$500K

Announced 2026-04-01

Buying Signals

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Spend Intent

2 signals · where the capital is going

Hiring

Currently a solo-founder company (team size 1); post-YC the round is likely to support initial hiring to build out the engineering team.

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Employees
1-10
Founded
2026
HQ
San Francisco, CA, USA
Industry
Software & Internet
Tags
Seed Cloud Infrastructure DevTools Open Source Software
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1 investor
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Y Combinator

Lead investor · Seed

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Backed by Y Combinator in the Spring 2026 (P26) batch, classified by YC under cloud infrastructure and developer tools.

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