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title: "Okteto helps Y Combinator Companies Accelerate 🚀"
description: "Learn how Okteto helps YC companies hit their next level of growth with environment automation."
url: "https://www.okteto.com/yc/"
source: "https://www.okteto.com"
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# Y Combinator Deal

50% discount to help your company grow faster.

## YC companies scale fast. Your development environments should, too.

#### Okteto helps fast-growing engineering teams move faster with **automated cloud-based development environments** that streamline onboarding, testing, and collaboration.

#### As a Y Combinator Alumni company, you’re eligible for 50% off your first-year contract when you adopt Okteto to help shape your developer experience.

### **With Okteto you'll get:**

#### 🚀 **Ephemeral Development Environments** – Every dev can spin up and tear down full-stack environments on demand.

#### 🚀 **Cloud-based Development** – Work in a production-like setup without local configuration headaches.

#### 🚀 **Seamless Kubernetes Integration** – Development teams can code directly on Kubernetes without needing deep DevOps knowledge.

#### 🚀 **Preview Environments for Every PR** – Test features and view the changes deployed _before_ they get merged.

#### Book a time to find out how Okteto helps YC companies scale (and unlock the YC deal) 👉

## Why Companies Choose Okteto

Growing engineering teams face these common challenges:

#### **👎 Slow onboarding** – New engineers take weeks to ramp up.

#### **👎 Environment drift** – “Works on my machine” is a constant problem.

#### **👎 Slow feedback loops** – Developers struggle to test in production-like conditions.

#### **👎 Infrastructure bottlenecks** – Developers depend on DevOps for provisioning.

#### Okteto automates development environments, helping platform teams scale their infrastructure without slowing developers down.

#### ✅ **Self-service, production-like dev environments** ✅ **Onboard new engineers in hours, not weeks** ✅ **Deploy and test changes instantly** ✅ **Reduce developer wait times and infrastructure overhead**

## Y Combinator Is Part Of Our Story

![A photo of Okteto co-founders: Ramiro Berrelleza, Ramon Lamana and Pablo Chico de Gomez](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/6icyfeiq/production/9a08d8a0580576564701e93b937540bf8e28f821-2048x1365.png?w=2048&h=1365&q=75&fit=max&auto=format)

#### Before joining YC W19, Ramiro, Ramón and Pablo had the same frustrations as developers: development in a microservices world had become increasingly complex and _slow._

#### Okteto was born out of the idea that developers should be focusing on shipping value, not wasting time setting up local environments, wrestling infrastructure or trying to debug "production only" issues.

#### Today, innovative startups like Lema.ai to high-growth companies like Monday.com trust Okteto to keep their developers moving fast.

![Omer Yehudai](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/6icyfeiq/production/3b31c7b9adc00dcac5436f82426a8d2024d92039-800x800.jpg?w=72&h=72&q=75&fit=max&auto=format)

Omer Yehudai

Co-founder and VP R&D, Lema.ai

Okteto has been a game changer for our engineering team. We can spin up full-stack environments in minutes, reducing the time spent troubleshooting dev setup.

## The Y Combinator Deal

#### 💰 50% off your first-year contract 💰 For new Okteto customers 💰 Exclusive to Y Combinator Companies 💰 Available for companies with 30+ employees