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Stacktrace

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Founded 2026Origin source ↗Checked 2026-10-12

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.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Previously OpenACA

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Vinod Kone

Founder/CEO

Vinod 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.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-10-12

Micheal Benedict

Founder

Founder 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.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-10-12

Prasanth Ganta

Founder

Founder 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.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-10-12
3team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-10-12

Founded 2026 · Source

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceA pricing page was detected
Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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