LinkedIn · Apr 2026
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Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Sparkles is a San Francisco-based YC W26 startup building a GitHub-native AI development environment for teams: non-engineers can safely make changes to existing codebases in isolated sandboxes and ship them as reviewable pull requests. Public evidence on funding is inconsistent: the company/careers pages claim $3.5M backed by Y Combinator, Moonfire Ventures, and angels from OpenAI, Anthropic, a16z, General Catalyst, Cloudflare, and others, while third-party company databases consistently corroborate a single $500K YC pre-seed/seed round; I used the corroborated $500K figure below and noted the broader claimed backers in investors.
Primary product
An AI-powered, GitHub-native development environment that lets non-engineers make safe code changes through isolated sandboxes and pull requests.
Founded
2025
Headquarters
2261 Market Street, #46159, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA
Team size
1-10
Industry
Software Development
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