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ByteAsk raises $1M in pre-seed funding led by Y Combinator and Entrepreneur First for AI coding agents targeting C and C++ development.
PRIVATESep 24, 2026•about 2 hours ago
Amount Raised
$1 Million
Round Type
Seed
SoftwareArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningNatural Language Processing
Investors
Entrepreneur FirstY Combinator
Description
ByteAsk, an AI coding agent startup founded by Anirudha Kulkarni and Pratyush Saini, has secured $1 million in pre-seed funding led by Y Combinator and Entrepreneur First, with participation from angel investors. The company builds AI coding agents specifically designed for C and C++ codebases used in mission-critical applications across defence, aerospace, robotics, and embedded systems. Funds will be allocated to product development, infrastructure, hiring across engineering and research, GPU compute, and training data. The startup claims its platform is used six times more intensively than comparable open-source tools, with weekly active users doubling week-on-week.
Company Information
Company
ByteAsk
About
ByteAsk is an AI coding agent startup building specialized tools for C and C++ codebases designed for mission-critical applications in defence, aerospace, robotics, high frequency trading, finance, embedded systems, automotive and semiconductors. Founded by Anirudha Kulkarni and Pratyush Saini, the platform addresses limitations of existing AI coding tools in environments where reliability, performance and correctness are critical. The company plans to develop enterprise-grade security, privacy and on-premises infrastructure while working on a C++-specific post-trained language model. ByteAsk's founders previously built and sold legal AI startup LawSutra AI to Manupatra.
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