LinkedIn · Jul 2026
Company post announcing GameEngineBench, a benchmark spanning nine Unreal Engine repos and evaluating compilation, PIE automation, runtime tests, and LLM-as-judge review.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Nitrode is a San Francisco-based YC W25 startup building spatial-reasoning data, benchmarks, and post-training tooling for LLMs, agents, and world models in game-development and other dynamic environments.
Primary product
GameEngineBench and the related data/evaluation/post-training platform for AI-assisted game development
Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
AI game development data, evaluation, and post-training
Offices
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Business model
Stage
Seed
Latest round
Seed / announced round · May 2025
Latest amount
$1.8M
May 2025 · Rebel Fund; Rebel Maiora Ventures
Apr 2025 · Y Combinator
Founders
Co-Founder & CTO
Investors
Small, YC-backed team with a research-first culture, strong gaming identity, and emphasis on open-source benchmarks, fast iteration, and long-running founder collaboration.
Compensation
YC jobs list San Francisco roles at $110K-$350K salary with 0.5%-3.0% equity; some roles are open to new grads while others require 1+ years of experience.
Pricing
Custom enterprise pricing / not publicly disclosed
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
LinkedIn · Jul 2026
Company post announcing GameEngineBench, a benchmark spanning nine Unreal Engine repos and evaluating compilation, PIE automation, runtime tests, and LLM-as-judge review.
LinkedIn · Jul 2026
Company update linking to the YC launch and describing the next phase of Nitrode's product direction.
arXiv · Jul 2026
Research paper from Nitrode describing GameEngineBench, a 110-task Unreal Engine benchmark for coding agents, including runtime-integrated failure modes and benchmark results.
Daily.dev / Product Hunt coverage · Jul 2025
Launch coverage describing Nitrode as an AI game engine for rapidly prototyping playable 3D games.
LinkedIn · May 2025
Founder post announcing a $1.8M round led by Rebel Fund and Rebel Maiora Ventures with participation from YC, Clay VC, Cosmic Venture Partners, Goodwater Capital, Eight Capital, Tekedia Capital, and angels.