Carl Atupem announced that Bytebot had been acquired by Standard Fleet and that he would join the Standard Fleet team as an engineer.
SourceBytebot is the open source container for AI desktop agents.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Bytebot is an open-source, self-hosted AI desktop agent for automating cross-application computer tasks in a sandboxed Linux desktop environment; public profiles now also note it was acquired by Standard Fleet.
Primary product
Open-source AI desktop agent / desktop-automation container
Founded
2021
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
AI desktop agent infrastructure
Offices
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Business model
Stage
pre-seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Convertible Note · Jan 2021
Latest amount
$500K
Jan 2021 · Y Combinator
Leadership
Founder, CEO
Investors
Open-source, community-driven, self-hosted, and model-agnostic; emphasizes simple human-computer interaction primitives, observability, and human-in-the-loop takeover.
Pricing
Free/open-source core; users pay their own AI-provider API fees and infrastructure costs. Public YC copy also references tiered pricing for individual engineers and companies.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
About $1.1M estimated ARR (2024)
Estimated monthly visits
12.6K
Carl Atupem announced that Bytebot had been acquired by Standard Fleet and that he would join the Standard Fleet team as an engineer.
SourceLinkedIn · Dec 2025
Carl Atupem announced Bytebot’s acquisition by Standard Fleet and said he would join Standard Fleet as an engineer.
Official blog · Jul 2025
Bytebot detailed its containerized Linux desktop architecture and the bytebotd control surface built around keyboard, mouse, and vision primitives.
LinkedIn · Jul 2025
Bytebot announced broader model support, including Google Gemini and OpenAI, for powering desktop-agent workflows.
Official blog · Jun 2025
Bytebot explained its design philosophy for using a keyboard-mouse-screen abstraction instead of brittle browser-only automation.
Official blog · Apr 2025
Bytebot argued that desktop agents are the right abstraction for complex work across browser, terminal, and legacy desktop software.