Kernel (Founding)
Funding Details
Awarder
YCombinator
Date Award
July 22, 2025
Vertical
B2B,Infrastructure
Company Info
Founding Year
2025
Market
B2B
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Coinvestors
YCombinator
Company Description

Kernel is the best place in the world to launch web agents and browser automations. We handle the hard parts of running browser infrastructure in the cloud so you don’t have to: spinning up browsers quickly, responsive read/write live view, logs, headless vs. headful mode, residential proxies, and more. Our API allows developers to instantly launch browsers in the cloud. Whether you are building a QA agent or a vertical-specific agent to automate back office processes on the internet, Kernel allows you to focus on your core product logic, rather than the infra required for agents to use the web. We're open source, HIPAA compliant (SOC2 Type 2 pending), & compatible with every browser/web agent framework: Playwright, Puppeteer, CUA agents, Browser Use, Magnitude, and more: https://github.com/onkernel

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