YC Summer 2026 (S26) company

machine0

Persistent & powerful cloud VMs from your CLI

About machine0

machine0 is a CLI that lets you create, provision, and snapshot cloud VMs. `machine0 new my-vm` spins up a VM with dedicated CPU, RAM, and optional GPUs, plus a static IP and HTTPS endpoint. The tools agents need (e.g. Node, Python, Docker) and the agents themselves (e.g. Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Hermes) come pre-installed. 99.99% VM uptime SLA across four regions. Agent workloads are moving from ephemeral to always-on. A coding agent debugging a complex issue runs 4-8 hours. OpenClaw runs 24/7. machine0 is the environment in which these agents run.

Public traction evidence

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  1. LinkedIn

    machine0 YC S26 acceptance and product demo

    Verified founder Barnaby Malet announced acceptance into YC S26 as a solo founder and demoed machine0 for persistent cloud VMs used by agents.

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    We just launched Environments, which allows you to inject variables into VMs at creation time. https://docs.machine0.io/platform/environ...

    We just launched Environments, which allows you to inject variables into VMs at creation time. https://docs.machine0.io/platform/environments

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    Introducing Profiles Define MCP servers, credentials, and prompts once. Inject them into your machine0 VM. Claude and Codex pick them up...

    Introducing Profiles Define MCP servers, credentials, and prompts once. Inject them into your machine0 VM. Claude and Codex pick them up automatically. https://docs.machine0.io/platform/profiles

  4. X

    Introducing machine0: Persistent, powerful NixOS and Ubuntu VMS from your CLI.

    Introducing machine0: Persistent, powerful NixOS and Ubuntu VMS from your CLI.