Coding agent ByteAsk raises $1-M led by Y Combinator

US- and India-based ByteAsk has raised USD 1-M in a pre-seed funding round led by Y Combinator and Entrepreneur First, with participation from angel investors.Founded in 2026 by Anirudha Kulkarni and Pratyush Saini, both graduates of IIT Delhi, ByteAsk is building AI coding agents for C and C++ codebases. The company plans to use the funds for product and infrastructure development, hiring across engineering and research, GPU compute, and training data. It also intends to build enterprise-grade security, privacy, and on-premises infrastructure for its customers.The platform is designed for engineers working on mission-critical applications in sectors such as defence, aerospace, robotics, high-frequency trading, finance, automotive, and semiconductors. ByteAsk aims to address limitations in existing AI coding tools regarding reliability and performance, with plans to release a language model post-trained specifically for C++ within the next six to eight months.