YCW26· AI· DevtoolsCanary
Adversarial AI that breaks your AI
Founders
- Aakash MahalingamFounder/CEO
- Viswesh N GFounder/CTO
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About Canary
AI coding tools have made developers 100x faster but customer-facing incidents are up 43% YoY, QA hasn't kept up. Canary is the first AI QA engineer that understands your codebase. Instead of relying on flaky DOM scraping or screenshot analysis, Canary reads your source code directly to understand developer intent and catch broken user flows before they hit production. Engineering teams go from weeks of manual testing to 90%+ coverage in days. Built by a team that built coding agents at Windsurf, Cognition and Google.
San Francisco, CA, USA
Canary: questions
Which YC batch was Canary in?
Canary was in Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch (W26).
Is Canary still active?
Y Combinator lists Canary as active.
Who founded Canary?
Canary's founders, as listed on its YC page: Aakash Mahalingam (Founder/CEO), Viswesh N G (Founder/CTO).
Where is Canary based?
Canary lists San Francisco, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.
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