ByteAsk raises $1M
ByteAsk announced a Pre-Seed round of $1M on 24 September 2026. The company operates in Developer Tools and is based in United States. It was founded by Anirudha Kulkarni, Co-founder. Announced today.
Founder
Anirudha Kulkarni
Co-founder, ByteAsk
Outreach angles
- -Anirudha Kulkarni co-founded ByteAsk with fellow IIT-Delhi alumnus Pratyush Saini after previous roles at quantitative trading firms Optiver and Quantbox.
- -Kulkarni built ByteAsk specifically for C and C++ development, a niche most general coding agents skip, working directly from the terminal with a project's own compilers and debuggers.
- -The new 1 million dollar pre-seed round, backed by Y Combinator and Entrepreneur First, arrives as ByteAsk joins Y Combinator's Fall 2026 batch and plans to hire engineers in San Francisco and India.
Signals
Pre-SeedYC BackedDev ToolsAI-NativeHiring
Round details
Company: ByteAsk
Domain: byteask.dev
Amount: $1M
Stage: Pre-Seed
Industry: Developer Tools
Country: United States
Announced: 24 September 2026
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