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Sparkles (YC W26) — Make everyone on your team an engineer

Sparkles is like Lovable for existing projects, so even Sharon from Marketing can change the button styling on the front page without going back and forth with the dev team. Someone technical connects their GitHub to Sparkles, sets up the repository and environment variables, and then anyone on the team with a @yourcompany.com email can log in on Sparkles and create pull requests without needing to know what Git is.

Sparkles is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2026 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Make everyone on your team an engineer. The founder listed is Ai Daniil Bekirov (Founder/CEO) (Y Combinator directory entry, January 15, 2026).

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Sparkles

New accelerator entry · 2026-01-15 · the record

Winter 2026
batch
2
people
Early
stage
United Kingdom
region
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BatchWinter 2026
Announced2026-01-15
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size2
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
RegionsUnited Kingdom, Europe
BasedLondon, England, United Kingdom
HiringNo
Sitehttps://sparkles.dev
Founded2025
YC group partnerJared Friedman
Previously known asLitmus, Flics

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Sparkles is like Lovable for existing projects, so even Sharon from Marketing can change the button styling on the front page without going back and forth with the dev team. Someone technical connects their GitHub to Sparkles, sets up the repository and environment variables, and then anyone on the team with a @yourcompany.com email can log in on Sparkles and create pull requests without needing to know what Git is.

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