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Winter 2026

Open-source Agentic Development Environment

San Francisco, CA, USA20262 peopleActive
Artificial IntelligenceDeveloper ToolsOpen SourceAI
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About Company

Agent-first development environment. Emdash enables engineering teams to develop software faster, by running multiple coding agents in parallel. We're an open-source and provider-agnostic desktop application.

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Arne Strickmann

Arne Strickmann

Founder

Co-Founder of Emdash (W26), Prev. Thrive, Highlight AI, Langdock

Raban von Spiegel

Raban von Spiegel

Founder

orchestrating agents @ Emdash. Stanford Engineer. Previously founded Soff (YC S24), built index protocol with $10m+ AUM, and NFT sniping bots. Research on software performance engineering at MIT CSAIL.

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workspace_premiumBatchWinter 2026
groupTeam Size2
calendar_monthFounded2026
trending_upStageEarly
categoryIndustryB2B
location_onLocationSan Francisco, CA, USA
boltStatusActive
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