# Sparkles

> Sparkles is a Y Combinator W26 web platform that lets non-engineers - marketers, designers, operations and PMs - make real code changes to a company's existing production codebase without ever touching a terminal, Git or a dev server. A technical person connects a GitHub repo once; teammates then describe changes in a browser, an AI agent works in an isolated sandbox, and every change comes back as a pull request for an engineer to review and merge.

- **Founded:** 2025
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Ai Daniil Bekirov (Founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** 1-3
- **Products:** Sparkles platform, Live preview + AI chat, Upload-to-PR, Enterprise rulesets
- **Notable:** Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch., Reported to have raised roughly $3.5M in seed funding., Backed by angels from OpenAI, Anthropic, a16z, General Catalyst and Cloudflare.

## Products & services

- **Sparkles platform** — A web platform that connects to a company's existing GitHub repository. Non-technical team members describe changes in a Lovable-style chat-and-preview interface; an AI agent implements them in an isolated sandbox and opens a pull request for engineers to review and merge.
- **Live preview + AI chat** — A browser interface pairing a live preview of the app with an AI chat, so users see changes as they describe them without running anything locally.
- **Upload-to-PR** — An 'Upload' action that automatically turns a teammate's changes into a GitHub pull request for engineer review, rather than pushing directly to the codebase.
- **Enterprise rulesets** — Admin controls for PR management, commit batching, repository and environment-variable setup, and email-domain access, letting engineering teams govern who can change what.

## Achievements

- Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch.
- Reported to have raised roughly $3.5M in seed funding.
- Backed by angels from OpenAI, Anthropic, a16z, General Catalyst and Cloudflare.
- Early adoption from teams including Turing, Pax Historia, Fondo and Revnu.

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Launched publicly via YC as 'Lovable for existing projects' and reported a seed raise.
- **2026-01** — Opened hiring for a Founding Product Engineer in San Francisco ($150K-$200K, 0.5%-1.0% equity).

## Links

- Website: https://sparkles.dev
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sparkles-dev
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/Sparklesdotdev
- GitHub: https://github.com/Texseractrum

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Last updated: 2026-07-30