Boat
The best cloud VMs for billions of agents
Founders
- Anicet NougaretFounder/CEO
- KirillFounder/CTO
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Closest in what they build, same category.
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About Boat
**Problem** Humans used to need laptops to do their work. Now they prompt agents instead, and those agents need computers too: always-on, in large quantities, and with unlimited capabilities. Building and maintaining that yourself is far from trivial. **Solution** Boat provides powerful, simple, permissive Ubuntu VMs in the cloud. In a sandbox, an agent can work for long periods on code or on knowledge work like legal, research, reporting, and auditing. **Why Boat and not any other cloud VM?** 1. It is ready out of the box: every sandbox ships with a desktop, chrome, languages, docker, snapshots, and templates, plus a CLI, SDK, API, and control pane for your fleet. 2. It is permissive and paradigm agnostic: any number of agents can use any number of sandboxes. Agents can run inside or use sandboxes as an external tool. 3. It is expertly crafted: we manage everything from the individual CPU to the orchestration software, which makes sandboxes stable, persistent, scalable, and secure. 4. It is the best performance and price in town: our CPUs rank first on HPC benchmarks, and sandboxes are typically 9x to 18x cheaper than other leading sandboxes. **Further notes** Sandboxes are hosted in Europe, which keeps prices low, and more regions are coming. Unless compliance requires it, agents don't notice the region they run in.
Paris, Île-de-France, France; Remote
Boat: questions
Which YC batch was Boat in?
Boat was in Y Combinator's Fall 2026 batch (F26).
Is Boat still active?
Y Combinator lists Boat as active.
Who founded Boat?
Boat's founders, as listed on its YC page: Anicet Nougaret (Founder/CEO), Kirill (Founder/CTO).
Where is Boat based?
Boat lists Paris, Île-de-France, France; Remote as its location on YC's directory.
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