Ara

Ara is a San Francisco-based Y Combinator startup (Spring 2026 batch) building an autonomous AI software engineer called 'the Cloud Coding Agent.' It connects to GitHub repositories, reproduces bugs,

2 employees

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Seed · $500K

Founded 2026

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About Ara

Ara is a San Francisco-based Y Combinator startup (Spring 2026 batch) building an autonomous AI software engineer called 'the Cloud Coding Agent.' It connects to GitHub repositories, reproduces bugs, writes fixes, verifies changes, and opens evidence-backed pull requests complete with screen recordings, logs, and review-ready diffs. The platform is accessible via web app, CLI/MCP server, Slack, Jira/Linear integrations, and a public REST API.

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San Francisco, CA

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Company details

Team Size2

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Founded2026

Funding

Total raised

$500K

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator

AAaron Epstein (YC Primary Partner)

Founders

Adi Singh

Studied EECS at UC Berkeley and Cybernetics at NTNU. Previously built a Rust-based IDE from scratch and worked in applied ML at Scale AI. Dropped out to co-found Ara after serial hackathon wins with co-founder Sven Myhre, having lived and built together across four cities.

Sven Myhre

Background in EECS from UC Berkeley. Scaled ML infrastructure in industry, chaired Norway's largest AI student organization, and won 1st place in the Norwegian AI Championship. Ultramarathon runner (100km+). Dropped out to co-found Ara after serial hackathon wins with co-founder Adi Singh.

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