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Stoa launch: what they're building and where to launch next

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What they're building

The market behind AI hardware.

Batch
Y Combinator Summer 2026
Industry
Fintech
Team size
3
Based
San Francisco, CA, USA

Founders

stoaexchange.com ↗

See their funding details ↗

Stoa on the record

What they shipped

  • From its YC profile: Stoa provides pricing and trading infrastructure for AI hardware, live with an RFQ marketplace where companies buy and sell GPUs through vetted dealers real-time. (source)
  • Its own site describes it as: "Stoa is the institutional marketplace to buy and sell GPUs and AI hardware, with verified counterparties and price discovery." (source)

Who is behind it

  • Berat Celik, Founder/CEO: CEO of Stoa. Repeat founder who walked away from xAI to build Stoa. UBC, computer science and economics; Cornell M.Eng., computer science. (source)
  • Eren Berke Saglam, Founder/CFO: CFO of Stoa. Traded interest rates derivatives at Citi. Dartmouth salutatorian, computer science and economics. (source)
  • Kaan Yigit, Founder/CTO: CTO of Stoa. Worked as a quantitative developer at Uniper, building the trading systems behind financial oil and gas books. UIUC, computer science. (source)

Timeline

  1. 2026: founded, per its YC profile. (source)

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Where else to launch Stoa

  • Product Hunt ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree
  • Hacker News (Show HN) ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Hacker News readers; engineers, technical founders, infra-curious people
  • Indie Hackers Forum ↗
    Self-promotion allowed
    Audience: IndieHackers; bootstrapped solo founders sharing revenue and behind-the-scenes
  • Demand Curve ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • Dev Hunt ↗
    Self-promotion allowedFree
  • No Code Founders ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • OnlineGeniuses ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group
  • Product Makers ↗
    Self-promotion allowed, within the community's rules
    Audience: Slack community; tight-knit, pseudo-private peer group

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