Overview
Agents will do most of the work in the future, but only if teams can trust them unsupervised.
Stacktrace is the control layer for every agent: it sees every action, detects risky behavior, enforces the bounds your team sets, and steps in when an agent drifts from intent.
Founders & team
Previously OpenACA
Vinod Kone
Founder/CEOVinod Kone, Founder and CEO of Stacktrace (YC F26). Previously VP of Engineering at Harness, where he led platform engineering and owned software supply-chain security, and Senior Director at Twilio Segment. Former Apache Mesos PMC Chair; scaled Mesos to 30,000 nodes at Twitter. PhD in CS from UC Santa Barbara.
Micheal Benedict
FounderFounder of Stacktrace (YC F26). Previously Head of Infrastructure, Security and AI Platforms at Airtable. Before that, he led developer platform and cloud infrastructure orgs at Databricks, Pinterest and Twitter. He holds an MS in Computer Science from SUNY.
Prasanth Ganta
FounderFounder at Stacktrace (YC F26). Previously Engineering Leader at Amazon (2011-2026), where he built GenAI systems at Amazon Ads and foundational services across AWS and Alexa. MS in CS from Texas A&M, B.Tech from IIT Guwahati.
Founded 2026 · Source ↗
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