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Butter

YC Winter 2025 Active

Embedded Sandboxes for Agents

https://butter.dev ↗
Thesis fit
Good fit

Within your typical scope; diligence still required.

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Idea match Light

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

Sector agents

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.”

Founder → stable Traction → stable Idea vs market → stable
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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 butter then re-ingest. Open on YC ↗

Activity & evidence

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