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Sparkles

YC Winter 2026 Active

Make everyone on your team an engineer

https://sparkles.dev ↗

Thesis fit

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Outside your stated focus; easy to skip unless something exceptional.

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Idea match Moderate

How close the company’s idea is to your thesis statement

Sector None

Overlap with sectors you care about

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Your thesis: “We back exceptional technical founders building AI-first products and infrastructure, deploying $100K checks within 24 hours.”

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People

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YC company pages list founders in page JSON, but we only scrape a capped slice of the directory. Pull this slug with .venv/bin/python run_sourcing.py --sources yc_founders --slugs sparkles then re-ingest. Open on YC ↗

Activity & evidence

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