Named investors include Y Combinator.[2][1]

Anicet Nougaret, Founder, CEO[2][4][3]

E2B · e2b.dev · Boat's own benchmark leaderboard compares sandbox and VM providers on agent workload performance, placing it in the same evaluation set as sandbox providers.[2][3]

Daytona · daytona.io · Same buyer and same workflow: developers picking a sandbox runtime for agent workloads. Boat benchmarks against Daytona and prices against it, which is the definition of a direct alternative in the same evaluation.[19][20]

Ona · ona.com · Same buyer and overlapping job: a developer or team that needs a cloud machine to run coding agents. Boat's comparison argues the difference is API-first sandboxes versus a sales-led dev environment, which is exactly the tradeoff a buyer weighs.[22]

Depot · depot.dev · Same buyer budget line: engineering teams already paying for ephemeral compute to run builds and agent jobs. Boat's pitch is that its VMs persist where Depot's runners are thrown away after each job, so the buyer substitutes one for the other.[23]

Kernel · onkernel.com · Same buyer and same job to be done: giving an agent a machine to drive a browser. Boat argues a full Linux VM substitutes for Kernel's browser-only sandbox, so the buyer compares them for browser-agent workloads.[24]

Browserbase · browserbase.com · Boat's CEO explicitly prices its VMs against Browserbase for the same job of running large volumes of browser sessions for agents, and Boat positions itself as both a browser-use tool and a sandbox.[3]

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