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Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on your team.

Spring 2026Founded 20263 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA
AI insightcan contain mistakes
Agentic Code SafetySaaSEngineering leaders, enterprise dev teamsMedium competition
Moat
Session observability and guardrails for agentic workflows hard to replicate; integrations with agent platforms create stickiness.
Key risk
Coding agents may become safer/more compliant natively; developer resistance to restrictions; narrow use case.
Why now
Widespread adoption of coding agents (Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot) creating security/governance gaps.
Competitors
Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Devin, traditional code review tools

About

Runtime (runtm.com) gives engineering teams control and visibility to enable anyone in their org to use coding agents securely. Eng leaders rolling out coding agents have no way to see what's happening, set boundaries, or safely let non-engineers use them. We provide sandboxed environments, session-level observability, and configurable guardrails so anyone on your team can ship with coding agents without breaking prod. We're live with fast-growing YC scaleups empowering their Engineers, PMs, designers, marketers, and ops to contribute to their codebase or build prod-grade zero-to-one apps.

Founders ยท 2

Gus Trigos
Gus TrigosFounder

Building Runtime (http://runtm.com) | Prev. Mentum (YC S21, acqud.)

Carlos Volante
Carlos VolanteFounder

Carlos is the co-founder and CTO of Runtime. At Modern Treasury, he scaled the platform to $350B in annual payments volume and $1T in reconciliation volume with 99.995% automation using a proprietary self-hosted LLM. At Finix, he took merchant underwriting from idea to six-figure revenue, $1B+ in transaction volume, five nines of availability, and direct integrations with all major credit cards. At Hulu, he rebuilt billing infrastructure for live PPV events across 35M+ subscribers.

Launch

Launched on Y Combinator ยท Apr 2026
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Guardrails and observability for all your coding agents.

Runtime provides guardrails, sandboxed environments, context, and observability to enable teams to ship with coding agents across multiple models and platforms. It offers environment templates, sandboxed previews, configurable guardrails, full observability, and one-click deploys, with self-hosted options and integrations via Slack, Linear, Jira, and more.

B2BEngineering, Product and DesignArtificial IntelligenceDeveloper Tools

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