Prized
Prized is a YC Summer 2026 (S26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 2.
About Prized
Summary
Prized builds a cloud development environment that mirrors a local Mac setup. Developers get a persistent remote machine with repos, dependencies, and tools pre-configured: files sync bidirectionally in roughly 100 ms, remote ports appear on localhost, and terminal sessions survive after the laptop closes. It replaces the need to maintain a local dev machine, letting both developers and coding agents work continuously without being tied to the device in front of them.
Business model
$30 of credit to start, with a pricing tier beyond that.
Go-to-market
Individual developers and coding agents are the primary users, acquired self-serve through a one-command setup with no credit card required to start.
From the Y Combinator listing
A cloud devbox that feels local
Prized is a cloud development environment that feels local on your Mac. Developers get a dedicated, persistent machine with their repos, dependencies, and tools already configured. Files sync into a real local folder, remote ports appear on localhost, and terminals persist through tmux, so developers and coding agents can keep working even after the laptop closes. Machines can be resized or cloned as workloads grow, without rebuilding the development environment.
Facts
- B2B / B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 2
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
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