YC AI Startup School Infra Layer After-party

Hosted by InsForge (YC P26), Chronicle Labs (YC P26), smol machines(YC P26) , Manufact (YC S25), and The Prompting Company (YC S25).

Following Y Combinator’s AI Startup School, join us for an evening dedicated to the founders, engineers, and builders advancing the infrastructure behind modern AI.

(This event is for YC Startup School Attendees only.)

From agents and developer tools to cloud platforms, evals, and runtimes, infra layer is an opportunity to exchange ideas with others building the foundational layer of the AI ecosystem.

What to expect:

Complimentary dinner and refreshments

Networking with AI founders, engineers, and operators

Conversations spanning agents, infrastructure, developer tools, and open source

Cool swags with designers' mind

Light activities and giveaways

Opportunities to meet future collaborators and new friends

More about the hosts

InsForge — the agent-native backend platform that enables AI coding agents to build, deploy, debug, and operate complete application backends end to end.

Chronicle Labs — helping teams backtest and validate AI agents against real-world production behavior, so failures can be caught before agents reach users.

smol machines — fast, hardware-isolated Linux VMs that run consistently on your laptop, in the cloud, or self-hosted, giving developers and coding agents a secure environment for running workloads.

Manufact — the cloud platform for building and deploying MCP servers and apps across ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI agent ecosystems. Manufact is also the team behind the open-source mcp-use SDK.

The Prompting Company — The Prompting Company helps companies get discovered and used by AI agents. You optimized for user experience. Now optimize for agent experience.

Attendance is limited.

This event is free and open to all ages. Please bring and show your Startup School badge at check-in. Guests must present a valid government-issued ID to receive alcoholic drinks.

Venue

The location will be shown to approved guests.

We can’t wait to see you under the hood :)

Transportation

If you need a ride to the venue, Recall.ai is sponsoring Waymos to get there.

You can claim one in the afterparty discord https://discord.gg/ycstartupschool2026

Happy building!