What it sells
Ship software faster with portable, self contained virtual machines.
Business model breakdown
Buyer: who owns the budget?
UnverifiedEngineering teams (self-serve developers) and infra leads.
Trigger: what makes them buy now?
Need hardware-isolated sandboxes for agent code and RL rollouts that start fast and fork.
Workflow: what inputs become what output?
Develop with the open-source smolvm locally, pack a .smolmachine, and run it in smol cloud via API or self-host.
Economics: what it saves and how it charges
Open-source runtime plus usage-billed cloud.
Distribution: how it reaches customers
Self-serve: GitHub, docs, console signup with $100 free credit; enterprise by email.
Funding history and coverage
| Round date | Stage | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Y Combinator Spring 2026 | — | Y Combinator | ycombinator.com |
Profiles summarize public reporting and company websites. Business-model notes are MaxBC's reading of that material, not confirmed facts; unknowns are left blank rather than guessed. Updated 2026-10-12.