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smol machines

Ship software faster with portable, self contained virtual machines.

Y CombinatorSpring 2026ActiveB2BInfrastructureCloud ComputingInfrastructure

What they do

Problem

Software behaves inconsistently across different environments, causing "works on my machine" issues and slowing deployment.

Solution

Smol machines packages software with a portable, lightweight, self-contained virtual machine to ensure consistent execution anywhere.

Who it's for

Developers and software teams who need to ship and run applications reliably across machines and environments.

Founders

BinBin He
Founder

Building the next generation cloud service that's like a baby of lambda and ec2. Using a new primitive that combines the isolation of a VM with speed and flexibility of containers. Recently was at AWS. Worked at ECS|Fargate|FargateOnFirecracker for ~4 years. ECS is largest container service in the world. Founding engineer of ECS managed instances. Before that, spent another ~4years in Infra in startups, NASA. Helped decomission Terra, Aqua, Aura satellites back into earth.

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