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Or do you have any concerns with infant formulas? We would like to understand your concerns as we are creating real human milk using biotechnology. Please share your contact info [here](https://forms.gle/gy64yfLuJ1MtnfmD8) and we will connect to schedule a quick 20 mins call to understand your concerns.**\n\n### **UnReal Human Milk! 🍼 👶**\n\n> **_Why? - Lactation Issues in Women are at an all-time High!_**\n\nEvery year around 85 million women globally struggle with breast feeding in some way or the other. The existing infant formulas are largely based on cow milk which naturally lacks several essential components of human milk like lactoferrin, HMOs etc. which are critical for the nutrition of the baby. Recently there was one of the biggest recalls in history of infant formula in Dec 2025, with a similar recall in US in 2022 which led to sudden shortage of infant formulas and left parents extremely worried and vulnerable. 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Siting and Due Diligence of Green Projects", "tagline": "Paces is software for green infrastructure developers to identify the best places to build and manage their projects", "body": "### **The Problem**\n\n[80% of](https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/transmission/lbnls-nationwide-interconnection-survey-has-good-news-and-bad-news-for-clean-energy) clean energy projects **developers** start never actually get built because most projects are started without deep due diligence on zoning and interconnection due to the cost of collecting that data. This means $17B worth of cancelled projects per year.\n\n### **The Solution**\n\nPaces is software for green infrastructure developers to identify the best places to build and manage their projects.\n\nFirst we collect environmental, permitting, zoning, energy grid data from various different sources; then we analyze the data and use AI to identify the best places for developers to build their next projects. \n\n### **Our Vision**\n\nOur long term vision for Paces is for it to be the **go-to software platform to enable the climate positive development of every piece of land on earth**. With Paces:\n\n* Solar developers can find and track all the sites for their projects.\n* EV charging developers can easily get a ranked list of the best nearby sites to deploy their next 20 charging stations\n* Heavy energy users like Data Centers, Direct Air Capture and Hydrogen plants can find locations with excess electricity\n* Financial firms can evaluate the value and risks of green assets around the world\n\n### **About Us**\n\nPaces was founded by Charles and James in early 2022.\n\n* James is our CEO! He grew up on an organic farm in Ireland and across a 15 year tech career he was employee 1 at an Google acquired AI startup and has millions in career SaaS sales.\n* Charles is our CTO! He grew up in Beijing and completed a CS degree at Cornell. Before Paces, he led AI efficiency at Facebook AI and built [metrics to track power/carbon cost of AI models](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.00364.pdf).\n\n### **Contact Us**\n\nIf you are building in the physical worlds, such as solar, wind, battery storage, hydrogen, EV charging, real estate and data centers, please reach out to us at [team@paces.com!](mailto:team@paces.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gfq-paces-siting-and-due-diligence-of-green-projects", "votes": 46, "created_at": "2022-06-27T16:38:09.514Z" } ] }, { "id": 26675, "name": "Birch Biosciences", "slug": "birch-biosciences", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6d5ede074951640a2e67e11927c78affb1e31b81.png", "website": "http://www.birchbiosciences.com", "all_locations": "Portland, OR, USA", "long_description": "Birch Biosciences engineers enzymes for plastic recycling using synthetic biology and machine learning. Our enzymes function as high performance “molecular scissors” that efficiently break down plastic polymers into chemical building blocks that can be used to manufacture high quality recycled plastic products. Today, plastic manufacturing is unsustainable and a major driver of climate change. 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He has spent the last 15 years programming bacteria and genetic circuits to produce novel therapeutic proteins and other natural products at leading companies including Absci and Ginkgo Bioworks. Johan is especially interested in solving major sustainability problems using biotechnology. He holds a PhD from Cornell University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University School of Medicine.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "http://linkedin.com/in/johankers", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/77c9dbc7ddcfc0cea9d901a92e53475050f42ea4.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 64291, "title": "🌳 Birch Biosciences — Engineered Enzymes for Plastic Recycling 🌳", "tagline": "We recycle plastic using engineered enzymes", "body": "**The problem:**\n\nToday, plastic recycling doesn't work.  Less than 9% of plastic is recycled in the United States, a number unchanged over the past 15 years.  The current mechanical recycling process involves melting and reforming plastic at high temperatures, generally resulting in major greenhouse gas emissions while producing low quality plastic at high cost.  This is a major problem as consumers demand more sustainable plastic products, but brands are unable to meet this demand due to sustainability, quality, yield, and price issues with mechanically recycled plastic.  If we don’t develop a circular plastic economy, plastics will be responsible for 15% of global CO2 emissions by 2050.\n\n**The solution:**\n\nBirch Biosciences is engineering an enzyme-mediated process to recycle plastic. Our high performance enzymes work as “molecular scissors'' at low temperatures to break down plastic polymers into monomer “building blocks,” which can be re-polymerized into high quality recycled plastic products. Birch recycling technology will:\n\n* **Reduce** **carbon emissions** associated with plastic recycling by > 70%.\n* Generate recycled plastic of **equivalent** **quality** **to new plastic**.\n* Produce recycled plastic at **equal or lower cost** than mechanically recycled plastic.\n* Increase the variety of plastic products that can be **effectively recycled**\n\nBirch’s recycling process enables a true ‘circular’ plastic economy where plastic products are continuously recycled into the same plastic products, rather than being manufactured from oil or gas.  This is especially important as consumers, brands, and our planet demand more sustainable products.\n\n**Our technology focus:**\n\nEnzymes as “molecular scissors” are the centerpiece of our recycling technology. We discover and develop high performance enzymes using iterative machine learning and quantitative high-throughput screening of novel protein designs. Our technology stack enables design of robust enzymes for industrial scale plastic recycling using a fermentation-like bioprocess.\n\nWe’re currently focused on engineering enzymes for PET plastics (i.e., beverage bottles, polyester clothing) and polyurethane plastics (i.e., foam for furniture, bedding, insulation). In addition to YC, our technology development is supported by the US Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.\n\n**How you can help:**\n\nIf you or anyone in your network might be interested in learning more or helping out, we would love to chat.  We're especially interested in talking with:\n\n* Companies and brands that use PET plastics\n* Experts in the plastic manufacturing and recycling industry\n* Operators of recycling facilities\n* Nonprofits with an interest in sustainability and plastic recycling\n\nWe can be reached at [founders@birchbiosciences.com](mailto:founders@birchbiosciences.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gix-birch-biosciences-engineered-enzymes-for-plastic-recycling", "votes": 246, "created_at": "2022-07-02T17:42:00.694Z" } ] }, { "id": 26769, "name": "ALT TEX", "slug": "alt-tex", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6cf48f1bdd01fd17e94a2956a2f313bda002e407.png", "website": "https://thealttex.com/", "all_locations": "Toronto, ON, Canada", "long_description": "ALT TEX is a Toronto-based biomaterials startup that has developed the world’s first biodegradable and carbon neutral fabric, engineered from the world’s largest landfill contributor - food waste. Polyester alone makes up 60% of the $2.5 trillion fashion industry and is the biggest blocker preventing brands from meeting sustainability mandates. The patent-pending ALT TEX fermentation technology creates a polyester alternative that works with the existing infrastructure to supply a sustainable, high performance and cost competitive polyester replacement to fashion brands, at scale. \r\n\r\nThe product solves key problems for fashion brands, consumers, and the environment:\r\n\r\n(1) Fashion brands: ALT TEX sells fabric to fashion brands, allowing them to differentiate via sustainable options (sustainable fashion growing 11% CAGR) and hit sustainability targets, without sacrificing performance or changing their current supply chain.\r\n\r\n(2) Consumer: The ALT TEX fabric is projected to be half the price vs. other specialized sustainable alternatives (due to low-cost input and scalability), meaning greater accessibility.\r\n\r\n(3) Environment: A single shirt produced with ALT TEX fabric can divert 1 kg of food waste from landfills, 9 kg of carbon emissions from the air, and 4 g of micro-plastics from our waterways.\r\n\r\nCo-founders Myra and Avneet have worked together managing teams and projects for six years, with backgrounds in serial entrepreneurship, corporate sales at Fortune 500 companies, textile manufacturing and biochemistry. 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Coming from a family background in textile manufacturing, I'm disrupting the $2.5 trillion fashion industry with better and more sustainable materials.\n\nPrior to ALT TEX, I held corporate roles in sales and marketing at Fortune 500 companies, before founding fluidic – a direct to consumer lifestyle brand. Prior to fluidic, I built FarmBox, a Hult Prize backed, AI micro-farming technology that enabled food sustainability in refugee camps.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/myra4/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/thealttex", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a7545ee525a8ce037e02092f3887cf6713e3ead5.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1018781, "full_name": "Avneet Ghotra", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Hi, I'm Avneet - Co-founder and CTO of ALT TEX. I left medical school to build ALT TEX. With education and research background in biochemistry & environmental science, I lead the R&D behind ALT TEX’s food waste to fabric mission. Prior to medical school & ALT TEX, I founded Approaching Zero, a non-profit dedicated to reducing plastic pollution through production of reusable cotton produce bags. Continuing that vision, I am now building a global solution for fashion's polyester pollution. 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We’re [Myra](https://www.linkedin.com/in/myra4/) and [Avneet](https://www.linkedin.com/in/avneet-ghotra-51284728/), co-founders of [ALT TEX](http://thealttex.com). We’ve created the world’s first polyester-alternative fabric, made from food waste.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65136&key=user_uploads/578199/71da3b57-6b33-4db2-a80f-becf0dd70065)\n\n🌍 **The problem: polyester is leading fashion’s GHG emissions, but has no circular alternative.**\n\nThe fashion industry’s heavy reliance on petroleum-derived polyester textiles is a major contributor to the 10% of global GHG emissions the industry generates annually. The plastic-based material, found in 60% of the clothes we wear, creates over 50 million tons of global annual landfill waste, generates 35% of all ocean micro-plastics, and consumes 70 million barrels of oil each year.\n\nDespite 1/3 of the fashion industry committing to 0 carbon emissions by 2050, polyester, the most widely used fabric, has no fully circular, carbon-neutral alternative.\n\nAt the same time, food waste is on the rise with 1 billion tons generated annually across the world. So, we’re using one problem 🍎 to fix the other 👕. Here’s how ⬇️\n\n👕 **The Solution: Fabric created from the world’s largest waste source - food waste.**\n\nALT TEX reduces the fashion industry’s dependence on fossil fuels through its biodegradable and carbon-neutral textiles engineered from food waste. The patent-pending fermentation technology plugs into the existing polyester supply chain to provide fashion brands with a cradle-to-cradle polyester alternative without sacrificing performance.\n\nThe product solves key problems for fashion brands, consumers, and the environment:\n\n1. Fashion brands: ALT TEX sells fabric to fashion brands, allowing them to differentiate via sustainable options (sustainable fashion growing 11% CAGR) and hit sustainability targets, without sacrificing performance or changing their current supply chain.\n2. Consumer: The ALT TEX fabric is projected to be half the price vs. other specialized sustainable alternatives (due to low-cost input and scalability), meaning greater accessibility.\n3. Environment: A single shirt produced with ALT TEX fabric can divert 1 kg of food waste from landfills, 9 kg of carbon emissions from the air, and 4 g of micro-plastics from our waterways.\n\n**The Story & Future:**\n\nMyra and Avneet have worked on every school project together since the 9th grade. With Myra’s background in corporate sales and family history in the textile sector, alongside Avneet’s background in environmental science and biochemistry, the two came together in 2020 to build ALT TEX. Today, ALT TEX has created its fabric prototype, raised $2,300,000 USD in funding, secured $1,000,000 in pilot LOIs and has grown the team to 10.\n\n**How you can help:**\n\nAs we scale out of the lab and into the market over the next year, we’re looking for:\n\n1. fashion brands interested in sourcing a sustainable polyester alternative\n2. food manufacturers looking for a sustainable way to re-purpose their waste\n\nIf you’re curious or have help/resources for us, please feel free to reach out!\n\n📩 [myra@thealttex.com](mailto:myra@thealttex.com)\n\n🌐 [thealttex.com](http://thealttex.com) | [linkedin.com/company/alt-tex/](http://linkedin.com/company/alt-tex/)\n\n👩‍💻 [@thealttex](https://twitter.com/thealttex)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gwa-alt-tex-fabric-made-from-food-waste", "votes": 188, "created_at": "2022-08-04T17:08:53.742Z" } ] }, { "id": 26784, "name": "Seaflight Technologies", "slug": "seaflight-technologies", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8a03c035eb081cba9d31fbf5316b214d8d910584.png", "website": "https://www.seaflight.tech", "all_locations": "Sydney, NSW, Australia; Torrance, CA, USA", "long_description": "Seaflight Technologies has developed a new form of Aerodynamic Flow Control for electrified aircraft that increases range and payload by 30%. That's the same performance improvement you'd get from hopping in a DeLorean to 2035 and coming back with batteries from the future. But it's available today - our tech has been derisked by testing supported by the National Science Foundation, the US Air Force, and the Australian Government. \r\n\r\nOur first product is a simple fixed-wing large cargo drone that is efficient enough to remove the \"green penalty\" currently associated with electric aviation. That's a step change from today's conventional platforms. \r\n\r\nFirst generation electric aircraft are heavy, expensive, complicated, and limited in terms of range and payload. In the entire history of aviation, that's never been a winning formula. When everyone already has access to the same batteries, materials, and motors, what really makes the difference? The answer is revolutionary aerodynamics, but in a form factor that suits today's operations and manufacturing. \r\n\r\nBeyond our own drone product line, we have partners across Aerospace helping incorporate our tech into their products. In the future, if you want to have the most efficient and cost-effective flying machine of any description, you'll need Seaflight's Flow Control inside. \r\n\r\n", "one_liner": "We make the world's most efficient aircraft", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Industrials", "subindustry": "Industrials -> Aviation and Space", "launched_at": 1659334578, "tags": [ "Robotics", "Airplanes", "Logistics", "Climate", "Transportation" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2022", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Industrials", "Aviation and Space" ], "regions": [ "Australia", "United States of America", "Oceania", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": [ { "question": "How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? 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After 6 prototypes and a series of record-breaking flights in Australia, the performance and market data wasn’t adding up, **so the company undertook a pivot.** With backing from the National Science Foundation and the US Air Force we developed our Aerodynamic Flow Control and immediately felt stronger pull from customers for our ultra-efficient cargo drone - one that can operate from any short airfield, anywhere. The Australian Government has funded our $2m project to develop a full flight demonstrator of our cargo drone by 2026, which will also serve as our first saleable product to early adopters in Defense and commercial operators. " }, { "question": "What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?", "answer": "Imagine a world where literally all short distance flight is electrified, quiet, direct, and low cost. Taking advantage of cutting-edge high lift technologies that we have government funding to develop, a much broader range of applications is on the horizon as we aim to be a global leader in large capacity drones as well as a high-value developer of key tech that can be used by every company pursuing electrified flight. We aim to show it’s possible \\*now\\* to cut costs, cut emissions, cut time, and cut worries globally with electric flight that is focused on extreme efficiency, not crazy complexity." } ], "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/seaflight-technologies", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2022/seaflight-technologies.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Sydney", "country": "AU", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/seaflight-technologies", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/8a03c035eb081cba9d31fbf5316b214d8d910584.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/636ce8f3dca71a667390405d8a8afd5754714e0e.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Jared Friedman", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/jared-friedman" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 881099, "full_name": "Graham Doig", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Graham Doig, founder/CEO of Seaflight Technologies, has >18 years experience across aerospace and automotive, and in academia with over 90 technical papers to his name as a Lockheed Martin-endowed professor. After his PhD on the aerodynamics of low altitude flight, he led the aero/range team at EV startup Canoo from early through SPAC, and conducted funded research programs with NASA, Tesla, and Joby Aviation. He designed 2 solar-electric vehicles which set international land speed records. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-doig/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a31c91732204ac6b1751cdf7365ad61022f47494.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 65921, "title": "Seaflight ✈️ We make the world's most efficient airplanes", "tagline": "We use aerodynamic magic to make electric aircraft good enough to take over aviation", "body": "Hi everyone, Graham here, founder at Seaflight Technologies. We developed an aerodynamic technology for any fixed-wing aircraft that makes it possible to carry more payload, over longer distances - perfect for electric aviation to overcome the limitations of today’s batteries. Our first product is a large cargo drone called AURAE. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65921&key=user_uploads/881099/5f0e8973-d450-4958-aff1-e4820d36eae7)\n\n\n### **BATTERIES ARE NOT VERY GOOD**\n\nAviation is incredibly hard to decarbonize, and first generation electric aircraft are proving to be heavy, expensive, complicated, and limited in range. That formula has never been successful in the history of aviation. Could we just wait for better batteries? Not great - emissions keep rising, and progress is incremental - a few % improvement each year means a few % more range... What about better motors, or lighter structures? There’s a few % still on the table there too, sure.\n\nBut if you could _double_ the aerodynamic efficiency, you could double the range that’s possible with today’s batteries. \n\nSeaflight uses Aerodynamic Flow Control. It’s tech that suits today’s operations, manufacturing approaches, and form factors, and we’ve de-risked it to the point where it’s ready to fly. \n\n### **CONTROL THE AIR**\n\n**Thanks to over $2m in backing from the National Science Foundation, the US Air Force, and the Australian Government**, we’ve been able to develop and test our Aerodynamic Flow Control - an active system that pulls more air over the wing when we need it (takeoff and landing), but otherwise adds almost no mass or drag to the aircraft (unlike adding extra propulsion). \n\nBecause we triple the lift only when we need it, we can have smaller wings. Smaller wings mean less drag in cruise, which means much less energy used. \n\n**This is key enabling technology to make electric flight viable.** \n\nOur upcoming large scale flight demonstrator will take to the skies over Australia in early 2026, with a production version to follow. \n\nBest of all, this is universal technology. Every plane has wings… Seaflight’s tech can go on every plane. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65921&key=user_uploads/881099/4b0649c0-2cb1-47d2-900d-a8b8791842cf)\n\n\n### **HOW DID WE GET HERE**\n\nWill Sutton and Graham Doig founded Seaflight Technologies heading into the S22 batch. We originally worked on ultra-low-altitude “ground effect” flight. After 6 prototypes and a series of world-first flight achievements, we realized the numbers didn’t add up to viable economics. After pivoting to aerodynamic flow control and developing the new IP, including a test campaign at Caltech, it’s time to make the AURAE flight demonstrator a reality and break some world records for electric flight. \n\n### **About the founder :**\n\nGraham Doig has a PhD in aerodynamics and has worked on electric mobility for 19 years, including 2 world land speed records. 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By developing our own hardware leveraging a unique transmission technology: LoRa we are able to offer an **easy to install, 5 times cheaper smart metering solution.**\n\nOur software then helps utilities get 24/7 view on their grid and a wide range of possibilities:\n\n\\- Remote meter reading\n\n\\- Detecting fraud\n\n\\- Turning electricity on and off remotely\n\n\\- Time of use pricing\n\n**Our Story**\n\nDuring the Covid lockdown, we experienced the limit of old gen meters, as technicians could not come and read them to bill every households.\n\nFeeling this pain for the first time ourselves, we tried to solve it in our hometown where we used to go to high school together, before realising that the problem was actually almost everywhere around the globe.\n\nToday we help 8 cities (Europe - North Africa) in this transition and are looking to find our first customers in the US.\n\n**How you can help**\n\n**If you know anyone in the utility space in any country that could find this relevant, please feel free to reach us at** [**founders@evolyenergy.com**](mailto:founders@evolyenergy.com)**. 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He has first author publications in multiple journals, including Science Robotics, and his work is featured in TechCrunch, Popular Science, and Spotify’s Soft Robotics podcast.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/wilson-ruotolo-679a6697/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/57aabf53f1d51058462c50a0b5e4664dc4cd9ebe.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 65014, "title": "🍄 Hedgehog - Robotic mushroom farms", "tagline": "Growing mushrooms & fungi for 1/3rd cost.", "body": "**tl;dr** Hedgehog builds robotic farms that grow mushrooms and fungi for 1/3rd the cost. Fungi produce protein-rich foods with near-zero environmental impact. Our tech is unleashing them as our next major food source.\n\nHey everyone! We’re Jamie & Wilson, co-founders of Hedgehog.\n\n**Opportunity: Fungi - our next major food source?**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65014&key=user_uploads/995535/6274e56c-e42e-41de-97aa-a0e6bc59c109)\n\nFungi are unique crops. They transform agricultural waste (corn husks, wheat straw, etc.) into protein-rich, meaty-tasting food. And they do it without arable land, irrigation, or energy intensive lighting. With 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions coming from food, this is an opportunity we must seize. Fungi are our chance to produce quality food at scale with near-zero environmental impact.\n\n**Problem: They’re labor intensive** \\\nUnfortunately, producing mushrooms and fungi is labor intensive, limiting their scale and affordability. For even the most sophisticated mushroom and fungi farms, labor is the vast majority of cost. They require delicate handling and careful monitoring – difficult jobs to automate.\n\n**Solution: Robots** \\\nOh yeah. Robots. We’re building robotics and AI to automate each step of production. Autonomous dexterous manipulation harvests, breaks down, and packages the mushrooms. Computer vision and low-cost sensors power decisions like when to harvest. AI optimizes >60 dimensions to increase yield. Eliminating labor and increasing yield will reduce costs by 70%+.\n\n \n\n\\*\\*How you can help:\\*\\*\\\nWe aim to unleash fungi as our next major food source, making these healthy, sustainable foods affordable for anyone. If you’re interested in helping out, we’d love to meet:\n\n* A+ talent in robotics and ML\n* Mushroom growers\n\nReach out at [hello@hedgehogfoods.com](mailto:hello@hedgehogfoods.com)\n\nJamie & Wilson\\\n🦔", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Guc-hedgehog-robotic-mushroom-farms", "votes": 272, "created_at": "2022-07-29T22:20:01.173Z" } ] }, { "id": 27078, "name": "Wand Solar", "slug": "wand-solar", "former_names": [ "Allero.io", "Allero", "Wand" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d578cfd1e80bacd21b29dac7951d27cd195252dc.png", "website": "https://www.wandsolar.com", "all_locations": "Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel", "long_description": "Wand Solar enables Solar Revenue for Income Properties owners. 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Start billing tenants like a utility.", "body": "# 🚀 Wand Solar — Bill Tenants for Solar Energy Like a Utility\n\n👋 Hi everyone! We’re Idan and Itai, co-founders of **Wand Solar**.\n\n## 🔥 The Problem\n\n**Solar wasn’t built for rentals.**\n\nToday, landlords invest in solar systems for their rental properties, but **tenants get all the savings**.\n\nLandlords pay tens of thousands upfront—and see no return. ❌\n\nWe spoke with dozens of landlords who installed solar on their house, but when they moved out and kept it as a rental, they had **no way to bill their tenants** and recoup their investment.\n\n\n\n## ⚡ What We’re Building\n\n**Wand lets landlords bill tenants for solar energy—just like a utility.**\n\n* 💰 Tenants pay what they normally would for electricity (or less)\n* 🏠 Landlords finally earn from the solar systems they paid for\n* ⚡ Same utility line items and tariffs. Full transparency\n* ✨ Want to offer a deal? Set your own discount (e.g., 10%, 15%)\n* 💳 Tenants pay by credit card—just like any other utility\n* 🏦 Landlords get paid via wire transfer\n\n**_No additional hardware. No tenant disruption. Just new income from the sun._**\n\n**_You earn first, we only earn when you do_** - we charge 10% of the solar revenue you collect.\n\n## 🔄 How It Works\n\n1. **Add your property and connect your solar system -** just enter basic property info and link your solar setup.\n2. **We track solar usage in 15-minute intervals -** we measure how much solar energy your tenants use—accurately, throughout the month.\n3. **We generate monthly solar bills using your utility’s rates -** the bills reflect the same line items and tariffs your utility company uses.\n4. **Tenants receive transparent, familiar-looking bills -** nothing confusing—just clear, itemized solar billing that looks like a standard utility bill.\n5. **Tenants pay, you get paid -** tenants pay by card, you receive automatic transfers. You keep 90%, we take 10%.\n\n## 💡 Why We Built This\n\nBefore Wand, we built a DevOps startup together. But we wanted to work on something with deeper impact—something that could actually move the needle on climate.\n\nThen we saw this stat:\n\n**55% of electricity in the U.S. is used in rental properties.**\n\nYet solar adoption in rentals is almost nonexistent—because of the **split incentive problem**: landlords pay for solar, but tenants get the savings.\n\nIt’s a broken system. And it’s a massive opportunity—both for reducing carbon emissions and unlocking billions in untapped properties across the entire value chain.\n\nWe built Wand to fix it. Now, landlords can finally earn from solar, and tenants still benefit from clean, affordable energy. Win-win.\n\n🚀 [Use Our Solar Income Calculator to See How Much You Could Earn—in Seconds.](https://www.wandsolar.com/real-estate)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=89699&key=user_uploads/1014551/e1089a7c-f5b5-494e-ab45-6ef4458b85d4)\n\n## 🏁 Ready to Boost Your Income?\n\n☀️ **Already have solar?**\n\n[Sign up now](http://app.wandsolar.com/signup) and **get your first month free.**\n\n_shoot us an email at _[_founders@wandsolar.com_](mailto:founders@wandsolar.com)_ after you sign up to claim it._\n\n🔧 **No solar yet?**\n\nWe’ll connect you with trusted installers—schedule a call or drop us a line \\*\\*[**here**](https://www.wandsolar.com/schedule-a-call).\n\n**Wand Solar — Utility-style billing for landlords with solar.**\n\nCheck us out → [www.wandsolar.com](http://www.wandsolar.com)\n\n📬 Questions? [founders@wandsolar.com](mailto:founders@wandsolar.com)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NKl-wand-solar-utility-style-solar-billing-for-landlords", "votes": 61, "created_at": "2025-04-21T14:30:32.587Z" }, { "id": 65694, "title": "🛡 Allero - Open source project that protects your production CI/CD pipelines", "tagline": "We scanned many OSS project and found tons of CI/CD pipelines which are not protected. Allero is here to protect them all.", "body": "### **Hey Fam! 👋**\n\nI am [@Idan Shahar](https://www.linkedin.com/in/idan-shahar/?originalSubdomain=il) and together with [@Itai Peri](https://www.linkedin.com/in/itayperry/) we founded [Allero](https://allero.io/).\n\n### **📣 TL;DR**\n\n**We scanned public repositories of FreeCodeCamp, Medium, Supabase, Posthog, and many more. Guess what we found out?!**\n\n[Allero](https://github.com/allero-io/allero) is an open source () CLI policy enforcement tool that protects your production CI/CD pipeline. CI/CD pipelines tend to be messy, and there are so many variations of pipeline manifests spread across different repositories. This makes it difficult to ensure security, code quality, and compliance standards are in place in every pipeline.\n\nBy running Allero, you can easily reveal and prevent problematic pipelines across multiple organizations and repositories.🏁\n\n### **👩🏽‍💻Who is it for**\n\nYou are a DevOps engineer or a platform engineer responsible for CI/CD pipelines in your company. You have at least a few dozen pipelines, and they are complex as hell! You obviously spend so much time managing and maintaining them, which is a total nightmare. Why? because you need to ensure that the code they deliver is bug-free, not vulnerable, scalable, and ready for production.\n\n**We already found many problematic pipelines in open-source projects, and we are 100% sure there are many of them out there!**\n\n* [Medium](https://github.com/Medium/jupyterhub/blob/master/.github/workflows/test.yml#L141) - When using npm in CI, in order to avoid surprises in dependencies’ versions, you should always use `npm ci` instead of `npm install`\n* [Supabase](https://github.com/supabase/supabase/blob/master/.github/workflows/integration-tests.yml#L42) - When using `npm ci` / `npm install` without `--ignore-scripts` - you risk running unknown scripts injected by your dependencies - which may be malicious.\n\n**Are you sure you don’t have them as well? Go ahead and see for yourself** **with** **our** [**CLI**](https://github.com/allero-io/allero#%EF%B8%8F-one-minute-installation-to-run-allero-validation-on-a-daily-basis-most-recommended)**!**\n\n**Wanna help us out?**\n\nWould love for you to run our tool, and to hear your thoughts! If you’re missing any rules, please reach out to us at [founders@allero.io](mailto:founders@allero.io) or just create a [new issue](https://github.com/allero-io/allero/issues/new) in our repo!\n\nIf you found this helpful, would love you to share it with your friends. Also, a GitHub Star goes a long way in helping our journey. 🌟", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H5a-allero-open-source-project-that-protects-your-production-ci-cd-pipelines", "votes": 20, "created_at": "2022-08-29T17:35:55.185Z" }, { "id": 64859, "title": "Allero - Prevent Non-compliant Code from Reaching Production", "tagline": "With Allero, only high quality and secure code makes it to production.", "body": "### Hey Fam! 👋\n\nI am [@Idan Shahar](https://www.linkedin.com/in/idan-shahar/?originalSubdomain=il) and together with [@Itai Peri](https://www.linkedin.com/in/itayperry/) we founded [Allero](https://allero.io).\n\n### 📣 TL;DR\n\n[Allero](https://allero.io) scans your code delivery processes (aka CI/CD pipelines) to verify that security, code quality, and compliance checks are in place and that only valid code reaches production. 🏁\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64859&key=user_uploads/1014551/711f2234-57e1-44b6-8dd5-c9e678973107)\n\n## 📖 Our Story\n\nItai and I both have been engineers for most of our careers. During my years at Microsoft, I worked with lots of companies who developed microservices in the cloud. While microservices bring lots of advantages, they also come with a lot of complexity - as there are so many of them, often by the hundreds.\n\nHundreds of microservices means hundreds of delivery processes - a significant bottleneck with DevOps engineers. I witnessed developers ending up developing their own delivery processes (CI/CD), while the DevOps team owns the process organization-wise and provides guidance to developers.\n\nThis poses a huge challenge for companies (and in particular DevOps and Platform Engineers) to ensure CI/CD pipelines are up to security, quality and compliance standards.\n\nAs a result, companies are forced to allocate significant engineering resources to deal with incidents like data breaches, complex rollbacks due to bugs, long delivery times, etc.\n\n## 🤯 We solve it with one simple CLI tool!\n\n**Manage your deployment risks with us!**\n\n* ✔️ Simply query pipelines to ensure they are up to security, compliance, and quality standards, across the entire organization.\n* 📊 Gain visibility into your pipelines across multiple SCM and CI/CD platforms in one single tool.\n* 🏃 Simplicity is our thing. Just download the CLI, generate a token, and start querying pipelines.\n\n**For example:**\n\n* Verify that every pipeline implements Snyk / SonarQube / unit/integration tests. (or any other tool!)\n* Make sure binaries are not being published to the wrong destinations.\n* Get the top 10 pipelines that fail the most / are the slowest.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=64859&key=user_uploads/1014551/eae5776e-8ef1-4b8d-8b5c-49f1cda57bca)\n\n**Sounds interesting? Wanna try our alpha version? Check out our** [**Website**](https://allero.io)**,** [Sign Up,](https://www.allero.io/waiting-list) and start gaining trust in your code delivery processes again.\n\n## 🤝 Don’t have this problem but wanna help us out?\n\nWe would love to talk with Platform and DevOps Engineers\n\n* **Who work for companies that develop microservices.**\n* **With at least 150+ Engineering team.**\n* **Cares about having a healthy and secure production.**\n\nShoot us an intro email to [founders@allero.io](mailto:founders@allero.io)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Gs7-allero-prevent-non-compliant-code-from-reaching-production", "votes": 118, "created_at": "2022-07-25T15:25:53.546Z" } ] }, { "id": 27823, "name": "Overflux", "slug": "overflux", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6a0338ca42cb50b2be254086011ed9dc423496b0.png", "website": "", "all_locations": "Los Angeles, CA, USA", "long_description": "Overflux automates the EV charger purchase, installation, and government incentive application processes for commercial real estate properties.", "one_liner": "Streamline EV charger installations for real estate developers", "team_size": 2, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B", "launched_at": 1703408985, "tags": [ "Logistics", "Proptech", "Climate", "Transportation", "Electric Vehicles" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Inactive", "industries": [ "B2B" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/overflux", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/overflux.json", "year_founded": 2022, "city": "Los Angeles", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/overflux/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/6a0338ca42cb50b2be254086011ed9dc423496b0.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 504669, "full_name": "Richard Zhang", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder & CEO of Integuru — build and maintain fast, reliable integrations for any platform. 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Finish projects faster and cheaper: Our platform cuts 17% of soft costs, allowing contractors to deploy more projects, faster, and cheaper, with 5-star customer experience every time\r\n2. Turn costly (often unprofitable) service calls into a revenue engine: By integrating with hardware OEMs (Enphase, SolarEdge, etc...), Coperniq gives you real-time health checks for your install base, automates service tickets, & drives referral revenue\r\n\r\nCoperniq does all this and much more in one beautiful platform!\r\n\r\nAre you or someone you know running or thinking about starting a solar company? [Schedule a call with us :)](https://calendly.com/coperniq-sales/discovery-web-v2 )", "one_liner": "Workflow software for solar & energy contractors ☀️😎", "team_size": 6, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Supply Chain and Logistics", "launched_at": 1677047552, "tags": [ "SaaS", "Solar Power", "B2B", "Climate", "Renewable Energy" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Supply Chain and Logistics" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/coperniq", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/coperniq.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "http://www.linkedin.com/company/69833957", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/coperniqinc", "fb_url": "https://www.facebook.com/Coperniq", "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/coperniq", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9213f506809754ff509502961f8e99070b3ed411.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/5af20c4633cfa0245ba92887c231f7f0741f83a9.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 869130, "full_name": "Abdullah Al Zandani", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "sales&ops @ two solar companies || energy efficiency building auditor @ ADM | B.S. Energy Engineering Cal '21", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/azandani/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/abdullahzandani", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/03c19e298002f8fccbcb6e82592d7ce534361c04.jpg" }, { "user_id": 541919, "full_name": "Max Kazakov", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Skills: Software, Data, UX/UI;\nEdu: CS & Philosophy @ UC Berkeley", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mxkzk/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/5257d5a23f9bd9afec90f725efb3640f93885630.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Coperniq raises $4M seed round to bring SaaS to solar installers | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/06/coperniq-seed-round", "date": "Nov 06, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 69996, "title": "😎☀️ Coperniq — Workflow software for solar & energy contractors", "tagline": "Coperniq automates the entire solar workflow so contractors can focus on growing their business & helping more homeowners go solar!", "body": "What’s up YC 👻 , Max & Abdullah here - co-founders of [Coperniq](https://www.coperniq.io/) (W23).\n\n# **🏃‍♂️ TL;DR**\n\nCoperniq is workflow software for solar & energy contractors. It cuts soft cost per installation by **$3K (17% of total cost)** & accelerates projects by **45 days (30% of project timeline)**.\n\nIt automates the entire workflow so contractors can focus on growing their business & helping more homeowners go solar 😎☀️\n\n# **🤯 Problem**\n\nAbdullah used to work in the solar industry, first in the sales department, and later in operations management.\n\nHe witnessed first-hand that while **“going solar”** was a no-brainer and took consumers 5 minutes, the process of getting a solar system **turned on** was a nightmare for companies and customers alike, taking 6-9 months instead of the promised 90 days. \\\n\\\nThis is because despite being one of the most important industries of our lifetime, solar is in the dark ages technologically. Bloated Salesforce instances, spreadsheets with 300+ columns, and pencil-and-paper workflows in the field…\n\nThis results in project managers working 60-hour weeks, human error & delays at every step of the process, and some of the [worst customer experience](https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1877039252445470) in the entire home improvement sector.\n\n# **💡 Solution**\n\nCoperniq is the first industry-specific platform for the underserved energy workforce. It helps…\n\n## **1\\. Finish projects faster and cheaper**\n\nOur platform cuts up to 25% of soft costs, allowing contractors to deploy more projects, faster, and cheaper; with 5-star customer experience **every time**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69996&key=user_uploads/541919/dc586ac8-2cc9-4216-a3ff-95737f8c9942)\n\n### **2\\. Turn costly (often unprofitable) service calls into a revenue engine**\n\nBy integrating with hardware OEMs (Enphase, SolarEdge, etc…), Coperniq gives you real-time health checks for your install base, automates service tickets, & drives referral revenue.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69996&key=user_uploads/541919/2e40aa5b-e1cd-4413-9efc-4780e32d1f28)\n\n# 🙏 **Ask**\n\nAre you or someone you know running (or thinking of starting) a solar company?\n\n* Email us at [team@coperniq.io](mailto:team@coperniq.io)\n* or [schedule a call here :)](https://calendly.com/coperniq-sales/discovery-web-v2)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/ICy-coperniq-workflow-software-for-solar-energy-contractors", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2023-03-07T05:46:34.556Z" } ] }, { "id": 27862, "name": "Bluedot", "slug": "bluedot", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d8fd6f1d5fb7457d7a65b3b8719a1b2c7f07928b.png", "website": "https://thebluedot.co/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Bluedot makes EV charging payment easier and simplifies expense management for drivers and fleets. They're growing 40-45% weekly and made $110K GMV last week.\r\n\r\nOver 50% of vehicles sold will be electric by 2030. The payments management infrastructure for EV charging and the expenses doesn’t exist at the moment. The founders operated 100+ EV charging stations, worked in companies like Zipcar, Bosch, and Mercedes, and faced this problem through their own experiences. They built a team with a strong fintech background and publicly launched their Bluedot card on Dec 14th, 2022.\r\n\r\nBluedot has raised their pre-seed from Y Combinator, Axel Springer, Porsche, Ford, TechNexus, DRF, and Pritchard Automotive. ", "one_liner": "Bluedot is a single payment platform for EV drivers and fleets.", "team_size": 15, "industry": "Fintech", "subindustry": "Fintech", "launched_at": 1677704231, "tags": [ "Fintech", "Climate", "Transportation", "ClimateTech" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Fintech" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/bluedot", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2023/bluedot.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/bluedottechnologies/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/thebluedot_co", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d8fd6f1d5fb7457d7a65b3b8719a1b2c7f07928b.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Aaron Epstein", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/aaron-epstein" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 711267, "full_name": "Selinay Parlak", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/selinayfilizparlak/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/selinayfilizp", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/d6bb9fdc713e01ad2bf6caf255ded6a8da3716f9.jpg" }, { "user_id": 711269, "full_name": "Ferhat Babacan", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I’m co-founder and CEO of Bluedot. I was working at Zipcar and Bosch before starting Bluedot. I’m a former national volleyball player in Turkey. \n\nI did in high school by feeding worms at home, I received awards from many companies such as Google and Microsoft at the age of 14. As a university climate activist, I participated in many studies. I dropped out of the Munich Technical University, where I went for my master's degree, and we founded Bluedot with my high school friend Selinay.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ferhatbabacan/", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/ferhaatbabacaan", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a8121f5ad1611054208685c0051910e1f1218fbf.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "How credit cards are getting in on the electric vehicle spending trend - MarketWatch", "url": "https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-credit-cards-are-getting-in-on-the-electric-vehicle-spending-trend-11644614659?mod=credit-cards", "date": "Feb 17, 2023" }, { "title": "Bluedot's debit card for EV owners offers cheaper charging, cash back • TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/23/bluedots-debit-card-for-ev-owners-offers-cheaper-charging-cash-back/", "date": "Jan 23, 2023" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 69841, "title": "(🌍) Bluedot - Single payment solution for electric vehicle drivers and fleets", "tagline": "Bluedot makes EV charging payment easier and simplifies expense management for drivers and fleets.", "body": "### **TL;DR**\n\n* **What:** [Bluedot](https://thebluedot.co/) is a single payment platform for EV (electric vehicle) drivers and fleets to charge their cars and manage expenses.\n* **Traction:** We continue to grow since launching publicly on December 15. As of Feb. 28, our **GMV was $82K last wee**k, and it’s **growing by 45% weekly**. We have closed 5 fleet companies.\n* **Here’s what one of our EV fleet management customers had to say:**\n\n “We have partnered up with Bluedot to give our drivers a better charging experience and understand charging behavior and optimize it. Our drivers enjoy using Bluedot so far. The charging map is great and makes it easy for me to drive without worrying.” \n\n “They love that they can pay a flat fee at any charging station and pay without having to download numerous apps. Saves money and time!”\n\n### ⏳ **Problem and how fuel card industry is changing**\n\nCurrently, EVs account for 5% of new car sales in the US and the Biden administration has set an ambitious goal to increase the **market share to 50% by 2030.** To encourage EV adoption, the federal government is investing in building 500,000 new public charging stations for these cars. Along the way, the projected spend for all-electric vehicle charging is expected to hit **$25 billion**.\n\nHowever, this transformation comes with some challenges and opportunities around charging and payments, such as:\n\n📱 **Accessibility:** Currently, to charge their cars, drivers need 5-6 different apps & cards to find and pay at charging stations. This is especially inefficient and difficult for fleet drivers who need to charge frequently.\n\n📊 **Trackability:** It’s hard for fleet managers and drivers to track charging behavior and spending, which creates an inefficient ecosystem.\n\n🧾 **Reimbursement:** Lack of accessibility and trackability also makes it harder for fleet drivers to get reimbursed for charging expenses. Also, most drivers can charge their cars at home, which adds to reimbursement problems.\n\n### Bluedot aims to address these challenges and help accelerate the transition to EV transportation.\n\n### **💡 How Does Bluedot Work?**\n\n▶️ **Bluedot Driver App:** EV drivers can access 60% of available charging stations and pay with the [Bluedot App](https://bluedot.app.link/SPpSLBVv8ub), while also enjoying savings on auto-related expenses.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69841&key=user_uploads/711269/024d8b2f-e99b-44bf-9b06-b368614ec80f)\n\n▶️ **Bluedot Dashboard:** Fleet managers can monitor and authenticate driver permissions, as well as gain better visibility into charging and driving behavior, helping to improve fleet efficiency and control costs.\n\n### **👥 Bluedot Crew**\n\n> ![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/825Nr_5QT2HD7fYmh4DKuM9NiifgbBP7hNua8V_VxG2pwDcRE7KFieNd_FHkLSy_wCZLjcEAhg8sVfo_SDcwa3dJ3MwKVlPVlcq7rGrYtp5BgtKyz0HuHvdXiH-fKyHsgLDc4rzhQqwgZTOa2kBKUkQ)\n\n\n_From our Bluedot Exclusive event for our drivers_\n\nOur team comprises long-time friends Ferhat and Selinay, who have known each other since high school. Ferhat has worked at reputable car and mobility companies such as **Zipcar, Bosch**, and **Mercedes-Benz**. Meanwhile, Selinay has worked on multiple EV projects and has been recognized by **Business Insider as a Rising Star in the EV Industry**. She was also nominated as Women4Climate by C40 cities.\n\nEmre and Yunus, our technical leads, have built applications that have reached 3 millions users without a marketing budget. Our team is characterized by our grit and perseverance, and we pride ourselves on acting fast and building faster. \n\nWe are backed by investors including Axel Springer and Porsche, Ford, TechNexus, DRF, Eksim Ventures and Pritchard Automotive.\n\n### **🙏🏼 Ask**\n\nWe are expanding and distributing our offering through auto dealers, auto financing companies, fleet management and delivery companies.\n\nWe want to learn more about how they currently manage charging and if they could benefit from payments platform and dashboard.\n\nAlso, try our product and let us know your feedback! 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We build small unmanned hydrogen airships to automatically gather massive amounts of precise data in a sustainable and cost-effective way.\n\n🚫 **The problem :**\n\nWe currently focus on:\n\n* 💨 Pipeline inspection to detect methane leaks (4% of global greenhouse gas emissions).\n* ⚡Power line inspection to prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks ($19 billion per year in the US), and ensure grid reliability.\n\nCurrent solutions (helicopters, airplanes, satellites and drones) are not adapted to make accurate, efficient and sustainable observations.\n\n✅ **Our solution** :\\\nOur solution is a crossover between drone and lighter than air technologies, using hydrogen as a lifting gas and power source.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72609&key=user_uploads/935793/71bfe7a3-7276-4501-a63f-19311f24fcb5)\n\nThis vehicle combines long range, high payload, and hovering capabilities\n\nWe have already built four prototypes, [two minimum viable products (MVPs)](https://youtu.be/MQLInmqLF7M), and are running a paid pilot with the largest power line company in Europe.\n\n🙏 **Our ask: How you can help**\n\n* **🤝 Refer:** If you know anyone that works in Oil&Gas or utilities please connect us ([thomas@hylight.aero](mailto:thoma@hylight.aero)).\n* **📣 Share:** Share this post with your network.\n* **🔔 Follow:** Follow us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/hylightaero).\n\nWe are building the perfect airborne platform to better observe, understand, and improve our world.\n\nJoin us for the flight!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72609&key=user_uploads/935793/56584ff9-a2da-41ab-985b-3a830e9f5f67)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/It7-hylight-hydrogen-airships-for-long-range-monitoring", "votes": 696, "created_at": "2023-06-28T14:55:01.605Z" } ] }, { "id": 28794, "name": "Ohmic Biosciences", "slug": "ohmic-biosciences", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5b68cb6a90af9c37176d63232ab7f6372925388d.png", "website": "https://ohmicbiosciences.com/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Pests and pathogens cost the world hundreds of billions of dollars every year. 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This helps them order the perfect amount of inventory: enough to meet customer demand without sending tons of leftover food to landfill.\n\n### **🗑️ PROBLEM**\n\n* **Predicting future demand is hard**: product-level demand drastically fluctuates each day based on hundreds of factors like weather, road closures, and sports games. Yet, even the largest supermarket chains still use basic regression models or Excel formulas, which means … \n* **Tons of food waste and empty shelves**: which costs grocery retailers in Europe/US $188B and costs our planet 15 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions each year.\n\n### **🥑 OUR SOLUTION**\n\n* **Industry-leading algorithm** that predicts order quantities for each item, each day, each store location. Our average forecast error (MAE) for our current customers is 0.95 units, which translates to a 38% reduction in food waste.\n\n![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/ib8L-X2brvq2yDx0i7QlNLakpS-1x79zlJSzMI5phoohO6II0KB9q3GhWEilhqDc6sXoBUm24rj4NXCX4O5sTa9susviyZFku6vb0YzC9_qIVa0Nbq-6YMHvuNaBx_P8_30I8wteFfbGtJu_3g5vdqo)\n\n* How?\n * **More than just ML**: Grocery demand is driven by real world events that ML models don’t know exist. So we inject 230+ external variables to actually capture people’s buying behavior …  \n * **_For example,_** _we found that sports betting odds help us predict beer sales. When a sports match is predicted to be a close game, it turns out more people watch the game, driving up beer sales!_\n * **Customized** for each store location: grocery stores located just 5 miles apart have different customer behavior.\n* **Inventory ordering optimization**: We then turn our hyper-accurate predictions into useful inventory order quantities, based on individual SKU-specific requirements: minimum order quantities, promotions, unknown loss estimates, shelf life, supplier lead times, and more.\n* **Modular integration:** We integrate our ordering recommendations right into the retailer’s existing inventory ordering softwares and workflow. Whether inventory ordering is done at the HQ-level vs. store-level, we fit into the retailer’s system, instead of forcing them to uproot their system to fit into ours.\n\n### **🙏 OUR ASK**\n\nWe’d love introductions to grocery chains (anywhere in the world), especially:\n\n1. Discount grocery chains, with tighter margins\n2. 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Asian grocery chains in the US, who import a lot of their products from abroad\n\nAnd if you know anyone in the general food/grocery space (POS providers, suppliers/distributors, grocery food waste charities, etc), please let us know at [founders@tryguac.co](mailto:founders@tryguac.co).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IwA-guac-ending-grocery-food-waste-with-ai", "votes": 85, "created_at": "2023-07-06T00:47:22.192Z" } ] }, { "id": 29089, "name": "Line.Build", "slug": "line-build", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/02320662022f49489050fc19df1ac3ad750c205e.png", "website": "https://www.line.build/", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Line.Build is software for contractors to seamlessly find and apply for financing and rebates for energy efficiency upgrades. 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We consolidate the thousands of rebates, incentives, and green financing options for energy efficiency upgrades, and make it easy for contractors to secure funding for their customers.\n\n**We’re looking for intros to HVAC installers and electrification services for our pilot**. And if you’re thinking about getting a heat pump, we’d love to help you find and apply for rebates and other incentives. Get in touch at [founders@line.build](mailto:founders@line.build)\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nWith buildings accounting for almost 40% of US GHG emissions, retrofitting for efficiency is essential to reduce emissions and load on the grid, but expensive. Over $80B of rebates, incentives and financing is available but hyper-fragmented across utilities, federal funds, grants, and green lending programs. Contractors are often responsible for helping consumers navigate this fragmented landscape - not only does their consumer demand it, but many sources of funding require it. This is leading to an increase in overhead, as they hire Ops teams and consultants to meet demand. Contractors that do not provide this service are seeing their conversion impacted, as consumers look to maximize savings. \n\n### **Our Solution**\n\nLine is a single source of truth for all available funding options. By providing a few pieces of information, such as project address and scope, contractors can easily access all available incentives and financing options available to their customer. Requirements are consolidated and distilled in a simple manner and we make suggestions that help contractors maximize savings for their customers. Maximized savings, means maximized conversion!\n\nOnce the customer is ready to proceed with the project, the contractor can leverage a common application to apply for all eligible programs. We remove the hassle of navigating multiple websites, printing documents, or mailing applications.\n\nOur platform is designed to be user-friendly, available in multiple languages, and accessible on both web and mobile devices. Additionally, we provide an API that seamlessly integrates with existing quoting tools, enhancing efficiency and convenience.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72550&key=user_uploads/1432654/02e79c39-4134-4f77-bff2-286ca21bbd57)\n\n### **Our Backstory**\n\nDasha and Steph have worked on payments and risk management for the last 10+ years at companies such as Airbnb, Plaid, Stripe, Asana, Gusto, and Google. We couldn’t think of a bigger risk than climate change, and wanted to find ways to help accelerate the transition to a greener and more energy efficient economy. We learned that cost is a big barrier to deploying technology such as heat pumps. We knew that funds such as utility rebates were available, but were surprised at how hard the process of discovering and applying for them is – so we decided to help solve that! \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72550&key=user_uploads/1432654/96e73cbe-5f05-4084-b4bc-890df449174a)\n\n### **Ask: How you can help**\n\n* Connect us to contractors such as HVAC installers, residential solar companies, electricians or whole home electrification contractors to try out our pilot\n * _quick blurb to copy & paste:_ [Line](https://www.line.build/?utm_source=YCLaunch&utm_medium=post) is a new tool that creates a single source of truth for all available funding options for home energy efficiency projects. They help access sources of funds to reduce project cost and increase conversion. Check them out at [www.line.build](http://www.line.build) or get in touch at [founders@line.build](mailto:founders@line.build)\n* Are you thinking about a home project such as getting a new hot water heater or heat pump? We’d be keen to help you get any rebates or incentives (email us at [founders@line.build](mailto:founders@line.build))\n* Intros to companies that build other contractor tooling such as quoting or invoicing.\n\n ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IsA-line-enabling-affordable-building-decarbonization", "votes": 234, "created_at": "2023-06-26T19:01:06.507Z" } ] }, { "id": 29157, "name": "Orbio Earth", "slug": "orbio-earth", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c8b46bfc8422d4590d819ae4695c62834845a549.png", "website": "https://www.orbio.earth/", "all_locations": "Remote", "long_description": "Orbio uses satellite imagery to track methane emissions from the oil & gas industry. We sell the data to financial companies that want to invest into the best performing energy companies.\r\n\r\nUntil today, oil & gas companies use excel-based emission factors to calculate and report their emissions. As these excel-based emission factors underestimate actual emissions by ~70%, the finance companies that invest into oil & gas can’t mitigate against incoming risks from new regulations, \r\n\r\nWe have built a technology that can for the first time use satellite images to track methane from every single oil & gas facility on the planet, replacing emission factors and allowing finance companies to make the best bets on oil & gas companies that will withstand a wide avalanche of incoming regulation. In the summer 2023 our satellite-based technology got ranked #1 both in terms of accuracy and sensitivity of methane emission events by Stanford University in a peer-reviewed study, beating a range of multi-bn dollar competitors like Maxar.\r\n\r\nLearn more at https://orbio.earth", "one_liner": "Tracking methane emissions with satellites", "team_size": 6, "industry": "B2B", "subindustry": "B2B -> Analytics", "launched_at": 1687128394, "tags": [ "Satellites", "Analytics", "Climate", "Energy", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2023", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "B2B", "Analytics" ], "regions": [ "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/orbio-earth", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2023/orbio-earth.json", "year_founded": 2021, "city": null, "country": null, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/orbioearth/", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/orbio", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/c8b46bfc8422d4590d819ae4695c62834845a549.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Gustaf Alstromer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/gustaf-alstromer" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 934621, "full_name": "Robert Huppertz", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Co-Founder Orbio Earth GmbH; Ex-ML Engineer NASA Harvest; Ex-Cervest", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/robert-huppertz-6536a0122", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f8439326c44aa077d7671d517304a4f7c229f0ed.jpg" }, { "user_id": 855020, "full_name": "Jack Angela", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Climate optimist building out product and commercial strategy @ Orbio Earth", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/jack-angela-bab326a5", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/a60ad6413ab0c3d137f4e6e8d9d64f5b9ebf567a.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Orbio Earth finds methane leaks that could cost oil companies billions this year | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/13/orbio-earth-seed-round/", "date": "Mar 13, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 72376, "title": "🛰️ Orbio Earth - Monitoring methane emissions with satellites", "tagline": "We help sustainability analysts manage methane emission risks", "body": "**tl;dr** _Orbio makes it easy for sustainability and risk professionals to identify large methane emission risks across global energy portfolios. If you’re interested in finding out more check out our website _[_here_](https://www.orbio.earth/)_, and feel free to book a product demo _[_here_](https://www.orbio.earth/orbio-demo)_!_\n\nFor more information read on below 👇\n\nHi everyone, thanks for stopping by our launch YC post. We are Rob and Jack and we are on a mission to power the low-carbon transition through methane monitoring.\n\n💨 **Why methane I hear you ask?**\n\nMethane emissions from the energy industry, if prevented would have the climate impact equivalent to taking all cars and trucks off the road globally. It is a short-lived pollutant, therefore stopping this gas getting to the atmosphere is one of the best levers we have in the climate change mitigation fight.\n\n🚫 **The Problem: Poor data on understanding where emissions occur**\n\nExisting data collection processes are manual, involving hand-held cameras on a site, expensive and not frequently available on all 12 million oil & gas assets globally. Poor data collection processes mean poor data.\n\nExisting methane inventories under-represent methane emissions by around 70%. This is preventing sustainability and risk analysts from managing emissions in their global energy portfolios. Mismanagement of these emissions can lead to stock devaluations, stranded assets and increases global warming.\n\n⭐ **The solution: Global and frequent methane emissions data**\n\nOrbio helps sustainability and risk analysts identify where in their large energy portfolios the biggest methane emission risks are. Identifying previously unknown risks and doing this on a frequent basis gives these analysts the tools to effectively manage emission risks.\n\n🤖 **How it works: Processing non-methane emission satellite data**\n\nOrbio leverages the power of satellite data. We have developed an algorithm capable of processing data from satellites not previously designed to monitor methane emissions. Using these satellites enables us to deliver world-leading data across global scales, at an asset level (e.g. an oil well) and on a frequent basis.\n\n_Benchmarking assets, operators and countries on methane emission performance:_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72376&key=user_uploads/855020/9256c560-1b9c-43dd-b0ff-f4dba82c8f01)\n\n_\\\nMapping out where these methane emission risks lie in energy portfolios_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72376&key=user_uploads/855020/6cf6d1c0-82c8-45ed-bdef-7cb274bbd1c4)\n\n💰 **The opportunity: A growing market being pulled by new regulation**\n\nA sweep of regulation being introduced across the globe in 2023. This is putting pressure on the energy industry, financial professionals and insurers, totalling around 60,000 companies worldwide, to get a better understanding of what the associated emission risks in their energy portfolios.\n\n🙏 **Our ask: How you can help**\n\n* Connect us with sustainability risk analysts in the energy, finance and insurance industries. [Click here](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-angela-bab326a5/)\n* We are hiring, if you know anyone on the marketing and commercial side we would love to have an intro! [Click here](https://www.orbio.earth/careers)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IpM-orbio-earth-monitoring-methane-emissions-with-satellites", "votes": 28, "created_at": "2023-06-19T22:48:41.505Z" } ] }, { "id": 29247, "name": "Precip", "slug": "precip", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ce5bdc762563a51d03ff83ec08044222b14c450e.png", "website": "https://precip.ai", "all_locations": "Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Precip uses deep-learning to make the most accurate rain forecast in the US. We started by using high-resolution radar to measure what actually fell, and built our minute-by-minute forecast on top of it. The result is a forecast that's 85% more accurate than Apple Weather and 52% more accurate than Google Weather, plus an API (with MCP) for developers.\r\n\r\nOur highly rated mobile app is the best way to see rain and snow totals anywhere. \r\n", "one_liner": "High precision AI weather ", "team_size": 3, "industry": "Consumer", "subindustry": "Consumer", "launched_at": 1703187990, "tags": [ "Consumer", "Climate", "API", "Agriculture", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Winter 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Consumer" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Fully Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/precip", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/winter-2024/precip.json", "year_founded": 2023, "city": "Ann Arbor", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "", "x_url": "https://x.com/getprecip", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/precip", "github_url": null, "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ce5bdc762563a51d03ff83ec08044222b14c450e.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/c339f2014575c626fcc858bc90c9b529fa5d68f3.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Garry Tan", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/garry-tan" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 5724, "full_name": "Jesse Vollmar", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Previously CEO of FarmLogs (YC W12) where we built the most popular farm management software in the US and raised $37m from top investors like Sam Altman and Drive Capital.\n\nCurrently building Precip (YC W24). We measure rain without needing gauges. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/vollmarj", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/e6bbe377d0b1dbaeb45c90f956380523e5e860e5.jpg" }, { "user_id": 266868, "full_name": "Michael Asher", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Data scientist and software engineer. Fascinated by agriculture and construction.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/michael-asher-1276065b", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f525bb41819fe8339272dc37415bd57046248e25.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 117439, "title": "Precip - Know exactly when it'll rain, down to the minute", "tagline": "The most accurate rain forecast in the US. 85% better than Apple Weather.", "body": "**Hey, we're Jesse and Michael. We were sick of weather apps being wrong so we built a better one.**\n\nToday we're launching the next iteration of Precip. It’s anchored on our own minute-by-minute rainfall forecast which is the most accurate in the US. \n\n\n\nIt all started with a gap most people don't know exists: accurate weather history. \n\nWe first ran into it a decade ago, while building a farming data-science startup in YC. \n\nMost weather providers just show you the last forecast and call it history. \n\nWe do it differently. \n\nWe use high-resolution radar to measure what actually fell. \n\nThe result is 60% better rainfall measurements than just using NOAA's HRRR analysis.\n\nToday we're introducing the next evolution of Precip: our own minute-by-minute rainfall forecast. Instead of a false alarm about rain that never shows up, or getting drenched without warning, Precip tells you when the storm will hit your precise location, how intense it'll be, and how long it'll last, right on your lock screen.\n\nAnd it's not just guessing. Our benchmarks show Precip's minute-by-minute forecast is the most accurate in the US by a large margin: 85% more accurate than Apple Weather and 52% more accurate than Google Weather.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=117439&key=user_uploads/5724/e3eba11a-751f-45a7-9402-4faafee56141)\n\nHere's what we found doing the research: There are dozens of published \"state of the art\" models that couldn't beat simple, non-deep-learning approaches, even ones from journals like Nature. None of the \"foundation model\" approaches shipped by the big players worked either. \n\nThe reason is twofold: low-quality training data (this is why we had to start with the most accurate history) and the wrong model architecture for this specific problem.\n\nSo if you're like us and don't want to get caught in the rain, download Precip: the first truly exceptional weather app since we lost DarkSky. \n\nAnd if you're building your own product and want the best weather data, check out our API where you can pull data directly or connect your tools via MCP. ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/UYB-precip-know-exactly-when-it-ll-rain-down-to-the-minute", "votes": 18, "created_at": "2026-09-30T18:31:29.713Z" } ] }, { "id": 29412, "name": "Ligo Biosciences", "slug": "ligo-biosciences", "former_names": [ "Ligo", "Ligo Bio" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bd381079ddb420940e9b57512009e6b5bc73e27a.png", "website": "https://www.ligo.bio", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "We are building the next generation of deep-learning models for enzyme design to slash the cost of chemical manufacturing. The $6 trillion chemical industry is flawed: It produces 20% of industrial greenhouse gases, and is responsible for 15% of global energy usage. \r\n\r\nEnzymes offer a far more sustainable alternative to chemical synthesis and have already revolutionised how a select few chemicals are produced. The problem is each enzyme takes years of trial and error to develop. Our enzyme models learn the principles of catalysis, allowing us to design enzymes for each reaction, in days not years. \r\n", "one_liner": "Enzyme design models.", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Healthcare", "subindustry": "Healthcare -> Industrial Bio", "launched_at": 1723173017, "tags": [ "Deep Learning", "Synthetic Biology", "Biotech", "Climate", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Healthcare", "Industrial Bio" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ligo-biosciences", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/ligo-biosciences.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/ligo-biosciences/about/?viewAsMember=true", "x_url": "https://x.com/ArdaGoreci/status/1830744265007480934", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/Ligo-Biosciences/AlphaFold3", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/bd381079ddb420940e9b57512009e6b5bc73e27a.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Diana Hu", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/diana-hu" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1373049, "full_name": "Edward Harris", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Deep learning for enzyme design!", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/edward-harris-537837188", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/6d02ed151fb6828f9e341fd4a12eae59b64b4168.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1451202, "full_name": "Emily Egerton-Warburton", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "I'm a biochemist from Oxford University with experience in the intensive environment of biotech startups, working on everything from bacterial biofuel production to vaccine design. Now focused on designing enzymes to make the chemical industry more sustainable. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/emily-egerton-warburton-a70121211", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/4fd1ca272276b79309f71725f9ac77debe3b8fa4.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1447270, "full_name": "Arda Goreci", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Founder at Ligo (S24). I studied Cell and Systems Biology at Oxford where I became a Google Cloud Research Innovator for my work in computational biology. Interested in deep learning, scaling laws, geometric DL, biomolecular design. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/arda-g-a26506118", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/f5e0fc43c349e97c738e48417637b35bb6172b26.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Show HN: An open-source implementation of AlphaFold3 | Hacker News", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41448439", "date": "Sep 20, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 83137, "title": "Ligo Biosciences - Generative enzyme design for the chemical industry", "tagline": "Next generation deep-learning enzyme models for cheaper and sustainable chemical manufacturing. ", "body": "**Tl;dr:**\n\n* [Ligo](https://www.ligo.bio/) is using deep learning to design **novel enzymes** to make **chemical manufacturing** cheaper and more sustainable.\n* The three founders met in a synbio lab at **Oxford University** where they decided to take on the **$6 trillion chemicals industry.**\n* Sign up for our [**waitlist**](https://foil-barometer-dc9.notion.site/Ligo-Biosciences-Technical-Waitlist-63a62e2b0f4a4b8dbaa31ce51b572d09?pvs=74) (Big news soon!)\n\n# **The Team:**\n\nHey - we are Ed, Emily, and Arda! We are building Ligo.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83137&key=user_uploads/1373049/1cde2313-c3fb-4cc4-a836-3dd991f69ae9)\n\n👨🏻‍⚕️CEO, [**Ed**](https://linkedin.com/in/edward-harris-537837188) — Ed studied **CS at Princeton** before transferring to **Oxford Medical School,** where he worked across three top synthetic biology labs. Ed bootstrapped his first startup at 19 in the food markets of Guadalajara, Mexico, and took it to **$1M in annual revenue.**\n\n👩‍🔬CSO, [**Emily**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-egerton-warburton-a70121211/) — Emily is a top **biochemist** from **Oxford University** who honed her wet lab skills in the intensive environment of biotech startups. Working on everything from bacterial **biofuel** production to **vaccine design**, Emily is **happiest with a pipette in hand**!\n\n👨‍💻CTO, [**Arda**](https://linkedin.com/in/arda-g-a26506118) — Arda studied **cell and systems biology** at **Oxford,** where he became a **Google Cloud Research Innovator** for his work in computational biology. Arda’s obsession with deep learning for biomolecular design began when the original AlphaFold paper was released.\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n## ❌ **The problem**:\n\n**(1) The $6 trillion chemicals industry is flawed:**\n\n* This industry produces **_20% of industrial greenhouse gases_** and is responsible for **_15% of global energy usage_.**\n* Traditional chemical manufacturing relies on hazardous materials and produces **_huge amounts of waste,_** resulting in **high costs.**\n* **You** unknowingly contribute to this problem by personally using **\\~160 of these chemicals daily.**\n\n**(2) Enzymes offer an amazing solution, but they are hard to develop**\n\n* Enzymes are biological catalysts. They accelerate reactions at mild temperatures and pressures, making chemical manufacturing **cheaper, faster, and more sustainable.**\n* **Major pharmaceutical companies** already use enzymes for manufacturing a limited number of drugs but developing them costs **tens of millions of dollars** and takes **multiple years.**\n* Current enzyme engineering approaches are **limited** because they must start from an enzyme that already exists.\n* No models currently understand the principles of catalysis, resulting in a narrow range of possible reactions that can be catalysed.\n\n## ✅ **Our Solution: Enzymes Designed From Scratch**\n\n* We are building **foundational enzyme design models** that learn from huge amounts of data to **understand the principles of catalysis.**\n* The model **generates structures capable of catalysing reactions** directly from transition state models, meaning we will **expand the number of reactions that can feasibly be accelerated** using enzymes.\n* These enzymes can catalyse reactions to **synthesise high-value chemicals** used in the pharmaceutical, agriculture, and consumer goods industries.\n\n[Our Diffusion Model](https://youtu.be/_V758AisYS8)\n\n# **Partnerships:**\n\nWe are happy to announce two key partnerships.\n\n* [**Basecamp Research**](https://www.basecamp-research.com) is on track to have **1000x more sequence diversity than public resources** - We are collaborating to use their data to improve our soon-to-be-released OpenSource model (sign up [here](https://foil-barometer-dc9.notion.site/Ligo-Biosciences-Technical-Waitlist-63a62e2b0f4a4b8dbaa31ce51b572d09?pvs=74)!).\n* [**Adaptyv Bio**](https://www.adaptyvbio.com) is building a next-generation protein foundry. Their engineers, Liza and Igor, are helping to build the **data pipeline for OpenSource model** using their state-of-the-art **bioinformatics tool, ProteinFlow.**\n\n# **We’d Love Your Help**❤️\n\n* Sign up for our [waitlist](https://foil-barometer-dc9.notion.site/Ligo-Biosciences-Technical-Waitlist-63a62e2b0f4a4b8dbaa31ce51b572d09?pvs=74) (Big news soon!)\n* We’d love intros to:\n * Small chemical companies in pharmaceuticals, fragrances, food&drink, detergents\n * Big Pharma and Agricultural chemical companies\n * **Any** **other biotech** companies! Email us [ed@ligo.bio](mailto:ed@ligo.bio)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lcv-ligo-biosciences-generative-enzyme-design-for-the-chemical-industry", "votes": 470, "created_at": "2024-08-16T21:11:49.384Z" } ] }, { "id": 29438, "name": "Spark", "slug": "spark", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/334553fe55450cd0888b7e50f8918d05c8491633.png", "website": "https://www.sparkhq.ai", "all_locations": "", "long_description": "Spark AI is workflow software for solar, storage, and data center developers. We've reviewed and identified over 1 million zoning, permitting, and project-related documents in nearly every jurisdiction in America, so that you can instantly identify project requirements, local sentiment, and fatal flaws in seconds.\r\n\r\nWe’re trusted by dozens of industry-leading developers representing over 90 gigawatts of project pipeline and $30 billion in financing. 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She was also an engineer at Apple Siri and Microsoft Azure. Julia studied computer science & economics at Brown, speaks 3 languages natively, and grew up between Brazil and China. ", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/wu-julia", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/thejuliawu", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/501f44c67d39cc1704ab75dc29ae432b76a7c8f6.jpg" }, { "user_id": 307611, "full_name": "Anuj Saigal", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Anuj Saigal is co-founder of Spark AI. He spent a decade building energy infrastructure at SunEdison, EVgo, and the Department of Energy before building the permitting tool he always needed. Previously CEO of Dataherald (YC W21), revenue lead at Nauto. 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We mapped and tracked every jurisdiction, project, and land use regulation in the country, and we just launched Stakeholder Intelligence, a tool that tells you who's deciding your permit, their voting history, and what's likely to happen next. **If you're developing (or powering) data centers, or know someone who is, we want to talk.**\n\n### ❌ The Problem\n\nData centers land next to real communities: people who didn't ask for a giant, humming building showing up in their backyard. A lot of them fight it.\n\nThat fight runs entirely through local politics: county boards, township councils, zoning authorities. Real people with real voting histories, some of whom love solar and hate data centers, some the reverse, and it shifts constantly.\n\n* Data centers are having the roughest time of any large-scale asset class right now. 42% of gigawatt-scale data center projects announced in 2025 have already run into a local moratorium, suspension, legal challenge, or permit denial. That's not an edge case anymore, it's closer to a 50/50 bet.\n* And it's accelerating. Within six months of announcement, \\~24% hit that same wall in 2025, nearly triple 2024's rate (8%) and more than triple 2023's (7%).\n\nFederal and state policy get all the coverage. But the actual bottleneck on AI compute buildout sits in a Tuesday night meeting in a county most people can't find on a map, and almost nobody tracks it systematically. Developers either fly someone out to sit through hours of public comment, or they pay consultants a lot of money to tell them what already happened last month.\n\n### ✅ How Spark Works: Stakeholder Intelligence\n\nStakeholder intelligence surfaces every board member, commissioner, officer’s past decisions, meetings and votes from our databases and web search agents running across the country.\n\n\n\n**We watch the game tape for you.** For every authority in the US, you get the meeting video, the transcript, the decision, and our summary of what actually mattered. Topics covered, who said what, what got decided. What used to take someone three hours of watching public comment now takes about thirty seconds of reading.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=113436&key=user_uploads/307611/076af213-dd78-4d58-acf8-c249244260cb)\n\n**NIMBY tracking.** We score every county in the country on data center permitting posture: moratoriums, zoning rules, sentiment grounded in local news coverage, and utility interconnection posture. That rolls into a tier and a score, so you know before you sign a lease whether you're walking into a fight.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=113436&key=user_uploads/307611/21ab4ec3-c751-4de6-845a-2cef9e732d7c)\n\n**Alerts.** Ordinances change, moratoriums get proposed, projects move. We tell you when it happens instead of you finding out from a headline.\n\n### Backstory\n\nJulia grew up in and around factories, in the supply chain corridor between Asia and Latin America, before building data and search infrastructure for Apple's Siri team. Anuj spent a decade financing and building energy infrastructure, at the Department of Energy, SunEdison, and EVgo, before founding his last company, Dataherald (YC W21).\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=113436&key=user_uploads/307611/870f82a4-1496-4bc2-b433-a69d13c8ea24)\n\n### Who We Work With\n\nAlphabet (Intersect), NextEra, DE Shaw Renewables, Nodiac, and a set of world class developers and Fortune 500s carrying over 200GW of pipeline between them.\n\n### How You Can Help\n\nIf you or anyone in your network is developing data centers, large or small, we want the intro. We're especially trying to connect with people close to Terawulf, Vantage, Equinix, CyrusOne, and Digital Realty.\n\nReach us at [founders@sparkhq.ai](mailto:founders@sparkhq.ai). Or happy to jump on a call: [**calendar link**](https://calendly.com/d/cyty-zwg-3bb).", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/TVc-spark-ai-stakeholder-intelligence-for-data-center-permitting", "votes": 8, "created_at": "2026-09-02T16:01:00.565Z" }, { "id": 96116, "title": "Spark: Permitting Intelligence for AI Infrastructure", "tagline": "Spark helps energy infrastructure developers cut through permitting red tape", "body": "### TL;DR\n\nWith [Spark AI](https://www.sparkhq.ai/), developers can instantly identify permitting requirements and fatal flaws in seconds, not weeks.\n\nWe have parsed more than 1 million zoning, permitting, town hall meetings, and project documents. Our systems ingest PDFs, maps, land use codes, moratoria, interconnection queues, and local websites across thousands of jurisdictions.\n\n### Permitting is the silent killer of energy infrastructure projects\n\nAn estimated $98 billion in projects were [blocked or delayed](https://www.datacenterwatch.org) in Q2 2025. A one-month delay on a 60 MW data center can [erase $10M in value](https://www.foresight.works/case-study/foresight-driving-projects-blind). Speed to power determines who wins in data center, storage, and generation.\n\nCritical information lives inside thousands of scattered, inconsistent zoning codes, permits, and local records. Teams miss high-potential sites, waste months on weak ones, and get outpaced by competitors.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96116&key=user_uploads/129719/ac5a347e-6cae-406e-8867-a98f5d8cd5ba)\n\n### Enter Spark: De-risking Speed to Power\n\nSpark pulls everything into one place and makes permitting intelligence instant.\n\nSpark scans millions of PDFs, maps, land use codes, and local websites to surface permitting rules and community sentiment. What used to take weeks now takes seconds. The same engine evaluates individual parcels or entire data rooms.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/6wvFwUNPrks\n\n**Rapid Permit Matrix 📄**\n\nWe run the permitting gauntlet for hyperscalers, energy developers, and BESS operators at a fraction of the cost and time.\n\nSpark generates a complete permit matrix that captures the legal, procedural, and social landscape of any site. Developers move faster on strong sites and eliminate weak ones early.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96116&key=user_uploads/129719/867df1aa-ea4b-4b25-96a1-003942873b64)\n\n**Social Media Sentiment 👥**\n\nLocal opposition begins online long before public hearings. Grassroots groups and Facebook communities shape the approval landscape months in advance.\n\nSpark tracks social media activity across every U.S. county for solar, storage, and data center projects. Users identify relevant groups, engagement patterns, and sentiment before the first meeting hits the calendar.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96116&key=user_uploads/129719/75434906-6ad4-48ab-83f0-4740c6350b2b)\n\nDon’t just take it from us: We’re trusted by dozens of industry-leading developers representing over 90 gigawatts of project pipeline and $30 billion in financing: Cypress Creek Renewables, Standard Solar, Arevon, UGE ([case study](https://sparknotes.beehiiv.com/p/from-bottleneck-to-breakthrough)), DESRI, Dynamic Energy ([case study](https://sparknotes.beehiiv.com/p/dynamic-energy)), and many others.\n\n### Core Team\n\nOur founding team, [Julia Wu](https://www.linkedin.com/in/wu-julia/), [Anuj Saigal](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anujsaigal/?utm_source=sparknotes.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ai-for-a-mission-recruiting-post), [Luca Marturana](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucamarturana/?utm_source=sparknotes.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ai-for-a-mission-recruiting-post), [Wendell Beane](https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendell-beane-21861712b/), [Shivam Agarwal](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shivam-agarwal-77604ab8/), combines years of leadership in AI and energy.\n\nWe come from Apple, Microsoft, SunEdison, the Department of Energy, and multiple YC startups.\n\n### Our Ask\n\nWe’re partnering with developers and operators building the future of compute and energy. If that’s you, we’d love to chat! [**Book a demo here**](https://calendly.com/d/4qp-yyt-qxw/spark-ai-demo)**, or reach out to [founders@sparkhq.ai](mailto:founders@sparkhq.ai)**\n\nWe are hiring across [operations/growth](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/spark/jobs/UKGQ0Fd-spark-ai-growth-and-operations-associate-manager) and [engineering](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/spark/jobs/kDeJlPK-software-engineer-full-stack-founding-team)! If this mission sounds exciting to you or someone you know, reach out to [hiring@sparkhq.ai](mailto:hiring@sparkhq.ai)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=96116&key=user_uploads/129719/45f5786b-f5fb-45ab-85a2-f2e05768bb19)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/P0G-spark-permitting-intelligence-for-ai-infrastructure", "votes": 13, "created_at": "2025-12-10T19:23:49.741Z" }, { "id": 78596, "title": "⚡️ Spark - AI-powered workflows for large-scale clean energy development", "tagline": "We help large-scale clean energy developers break ground faster", "body": "**😎 TL;DR**\n\n[Spark](https://www.sparkhq.ai/) is an AI-powered planning and workflow tool for large-scale clean energy developers that lets them break ground faster. Tae and Julia were previously engineering and product leaders at Tesla, Apple, and Brex.\n\nWe are trusted by award-winning solar and battery developers with nearly 1 GW of projects across the US. If you are a utility or community-scale developer, [book a call with us](https://calendly.com/d/4qp-yyt-qxw/spark-demo) to learn more.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78596&key=user_uploads/129719/b48282f6-7002-4eba-92e9-dc5307a6c58e)\n\n**🔌 The Problem**\n\nWe are in the midst of a generational energy transition, with solar deployment expanding at an annualized rate of roughly [$500B](https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1698496805162353029) globally, and the Inflation Reduction Act unleashing another [$400B](https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-sector/our-insights/the-inflation-reduction-act-heres-whats-in-it) in federal funding. To meet the soaring demand for clean energy, the US must [build](https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/04/electrify-everything-scope-data/) an equivalent amount of clean generation by 2035 to the total electricity supplied by all sources today.\n\nDespite this rapid deployment, utility-scale clean energy developers often spend months assessing and preparing their projects for financing and construction due to varying policies, interconnection, and permitting requirements across jurisdictions. This pre-construction phase is an error-prone and manual effort of researching and aggregating data across thousands of PDFs, websites, and maps.\n\nMany developers find themselves poring over 1000-page documents, engaging expensive consultants, or focusing on a limited number of jurisdictions.\n\nThrough hundreds of conversations with developers, we consistently hear that navigating this \"complex patchwork of jurisdictions, where every state is a snowflake,\" is a major obstacle.\n\n**✨ Enter Spark**\n\nWith Spark, developers can identify requirements, risks, and incentives by leveraging our curated dataset. They can now screen prospective projects in seconds, not weeks.\n\nFor the first time, Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a dramatically simplified method to extract grid interconnection and permitting requirements, zoning ordinances, economics (rates, tax credits, RECs), and a range of unstructured information relevant to renewables development.\n\nBy refining the data specifically for this industry, Spark introduces a new way for developers to navigate through otherwise disparate and cumbersome information.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78596&key=user_uploads/295458/976413d4-584e-44fd-8c6e-315509d4c9de)\n\nThese insights are then precisely mapped to individual counties and parcels of land, accelerating the development process significantly.\n\nHowever, Spark’s capabilities extend beyond location diligence and requirement aggregation. Our goal is to re-imagine the development workflow, enabling developers to drastically reduce the time dedicated to mundane tasks such as research, documentation, and portfolio management.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=78596&key=user_uploads/129719/550c9a08-294e-4944-9369-649919faca48)\n\nOne of our customers, an industry veteran with nearly 20 years of experience, said “I see this tool as my Jarvis.”\n\nOur mission is to empower developers to prioritize human interactions and make strategic decisions about where to invest millions of dollars to electrify the nation’s grid — not the manual, back office work.\n\n[🪄](mailto:founders@sparkhq.ai) **The (Dream) Team**\n\n[Tae](https://www.linkedin.com/in/taehnkim/) built software while sitting inside the Model 3 factory at Tesla, wrote payment systems that processed millions in EV sales as a founding engineer at Lucid Motors’ commerce team, and helped Gen Z find love at Tinder.\n\n[Julia](https://www.linkedin.com/in/wu-julia/) was an engineering manager on the team that automated fraud alerts and dispute filing at Brex. She also built search and cloud infrastructure at Apple and Microsoft and bankrolled her passion for crypto through hackathon prizes on nights and weekends.\n\nHailing from São Paulo, Brazil, where we lived ten minutes apart after our parents immigrated from Korea and China, we embarked on our American dream at 18 for undergraduate degrees in STEM at Georgia Tech and Brown University. Our paths crossed many years later in New York City, through a shared passion for software engineering, infrastructure for society, and startups.\n\n**⚡️ Energized yet?**\n\nAre you (or do you know) a developer of utility or community-scale solar/storage projects? [Book a demo](https://calendly.com/d/4qp-yyt-qxw/spark-demo) or reach out to [founders@sparkhq.ai!](mailto:founders@sparkhq.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KRg-spark-ai-powered-workflows-for-large-scale-clean-energy-development", "votes": 58, "created_at": "2024-02-21T16:41:20.744Z" }, { "id": 77503, "title": "Dataherald - NL-to-SQL API for developers", "tagline": "Embed NL-to-SQL into your product", "body": "**TL;DR**\n\nDataherald enables you to embed Natural Language to SQL (“NL-to-SQL”) into your product. The NL-to-SQL API, built with an LLM (such as GPT), allows users to conduct no-code data analytics, pull reports, and conduct complex data queries using just natural language.\n\nHi, we’re [Amir](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amir-zohrenejad-72a517184/) and [Anuj](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anujsaigal/) from [Dataherald](https://www.dataherald.com/contact). There have been countless game-changing applications of AI, but one area that has remained uncharted is NL-to-SQL. But fear not - we’re changing that. We’ve built a cutting-edge NL-to-SQL engine, meticulously crafted to be the fastest and most accurate in the market, delivering an unmatched developer experience!\n\n**The Problem**\n\nDevelopers struggle to build NL-to-SQL into products because LLMs do not work out-of-the-box. LLMs do not:\n\n1. Utilize metadata and business definitions since they are not already stored in the relational database\n2. Conduct **complex** SQL queries, such as self joins, multiple sub-queries, or rarer operations like windowing, partitioning, lags, temporal calculations, etc.\n3. Create NL-to-SQL training dataset(s) for fine-tuned models\n4. Assess the accuracy of AI-generated SQL\n\n**The Solution**\n\nDataherald’s API solves these challenges by allowing developers to:\n\n* Add business context from various sources (data dictionaries, DBT, Confluence docs, Google docs, etc.)\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/kwye-PT4ors7WmWLdm5AjZN5oprn0XXX2v4i_PkCIYwRvilZ-fixK_9wJGHJo9PU1rjv99kBgEVCB1YX58DYO3HCeNoQlHqLcdURUilLhsYcdiDTVEVcd8DZCrt_1EeHYd-zkjWUukA6I8Ka8epVBCc)\n\n* Identify relevant data tables\n* Fine-tune NL-to-SQL LLMs **(including GPT-4!)** specific to their data\n* Assess confidence levels in AI-generated SQL\n\nAll this happens with a few simple API calls.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/6LVhL2Hbyga7oQ7mGDNORds_IMhmA5oBbrjNjKl4Y3L3rECk4WozWzJQY8jS16X6j9ZGgW-5p1fVqt6flbiZfR138EpYhUmcH9btyJL1ky_y7EIlQ5lEQUYVVVzfzDkjlfDU88y_0mJwDRbMgXWug9M)\n\nDataherald’s NL-to-SQL API unlocks data access wherever needed:\n\n1. Enabling Complex Data Queries in SaaS Apps: For example a large payroll software company uses Dataherald to embed NL-to-SQL into their front end so that users can ask questions like “How much did I spend on full stack engineers in our European offices in Q2 2023 and how is that trending?”\n2. Democratizing Data Insights: Companies integrate our API into Slack, enabling self-serve data requests, and freeing up valuable time for data analysts.\n3. Automate Customer Support with Chatbots: Customer support teams dealing with data-heavy queries leverage Dataherald in chatbots, automating inquiries regarding user data.\n\n![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/rsI_mjIShLSNZBuwGtOKk8k8Fv0f8rUEjItn0w17y-_rps3jWcWNgvQ6C9Ly9EFxszG7jE3c5DLS_T9lcEiHwYD0Z1nvXNgHB3-qFRAOJM6XL6B0w19JQt_esYJm7qqp6Tg2U1Jh9QvHlWGdohmzUZ4)\n\n**The ASK**\n\n* **Start using today** - send me an email [anuj@dataherald.com](https://mailto:anuj@dataherald.com) to get your API key and start using it today!\n* **Share** - tell your colleagues and friends about [Dataherald](https://dataherald.com/)\n* **YC Companies** - skip the wait list and claim the [YC deal](https://bookface.ycombinator.com/deals/2135) \n* **Open-source engine** is available on [Github](https://github.com/Dataherald)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KA3-dataherald-nl-to-sql-api-for-developers", "votes": 21, "created_at": "2024-01-15T22:29:20.249Z" }, { "id": 73999, "title": "🚀 Dataherald - Query your structured database in natural language", "tagline": "Enable anyone to get answers to ad hoc data questions in seconds – no SQL needed", "body": "### The TL;DR\n\nRather than waiting hours or days, business users get answers to complex data questions in seconds – all in plain English. Dataherald’s AI-powered natural language to SQL agent gives you answers, fast. It’s like having a data analyst on standby 24/7.\n\n👋 Howdy! - we’re [Amir](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amir-zohrenejad-72a517184/) and [Anuj](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anujsaigal/); we’re building [Dataherald](https://dataherald.com/). We’re on a mission to enable anyone to get answers to their data questions immediately. No longer do you have to click through dozens of BI dashboards or “wait on the data team” to get the answers you need.\n\n### The Problem\n\nWith an ever-increasing volume of data, businesses have invested heavily in BI tools with the aim of providing answers to data questions. These tools often fail to handle complex data queries, leading to a backlog of **ad hoc questions** for the data team, inevitably creating a bottleneck.\n\n**The Data BI “Doom Loop” —** Dashboards inevitably fall short in answering certain data questions, leaving people waiting.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73999&key=user_uploads/307611/9c21d382-337a-4bcf-9d06-27be4cd90a5f)\n\n### The Solution\n\nBusiness users want answers to their data questions in the most natural way possible - by simply posing a question in plain language and receiving a response in the same natural language format.\n\nDataherald cuts through the noise, providing quick answers to complex data questions, all in plain English. Users Slack their queries to our bot and receive instant responses.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73999&key=user_uploads/307611/9daf452e-4d9e-44a3-b41b-6594bea0391d)\n\nOur natural language-to-SQL agent, supported by an LLM, comprehends questions, identifies relevant data tables, writes SQL queries, and assesses confidence levels in responses. If confidence is low, a member of your data team can review and modify the SQL. Best of all, Dataherald's algorithm continuously improves, delivering more accurate insights over time. Watch the product in action in the link below!\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73999&key=user_uploads/307611/a55a7b9c-94dd-480d-a489-9393ba36c380)\n\n### \n\n### The ASK\n\n* Join our [**waitlist**](https://www.dataherald.com/contact) and we’ll get in touch ASAP\n* Check out Dataherald in action [**(video link)**](https://5892632.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/5892632/Dataherald%20AI%20-%20Streamline%20your%20teams%20ad-hoc%20data%20questions.mp4)\n* Stay informed about our latest developments by following us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dataherald) and [Medium](https://medium.com/dataherald). Our journey is just beginning!\n* Open-source engine is now available on [**Github**](https://github.com/Dataherald)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/JFX-dataherald-query-your-structured-database-in-natural-language", "votes": 57, "created_at": "2023-08-10T16:58:42.614Z" } ] }, { "id": 29650, "name": "Sorcerer", "slug": "sorcerer", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/543dab64586e13bb93c11e6012ecd070fb8c8a67.png", "website": "https://sorcerer.earth", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Sorcerer is deploying a global network of persistent airborne sensors to fuel advanced weather forecasting. Our high-altitude balloons collect 1000x more data than existing systems and are already used daily by meteorologists to track extreme weather across the US and Central America.", "one_liner": "Building a nervous system for the atmosphere", "team_size": 4, "industry": "Industrials", "subindustry": "Industrials -> Climate", "launched_at": 1720630564, "tags": [ "Hard Tech", "Hardware", "Climate", "Aerospace", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Industrials", "Climate" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": [ { "question": "What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?", "answer": "Hundreds of terabytes of weather data are collected from satellites, ground stations, airplanes and weather balloons every day. A typical weather satellite costs more than $100 million to launch, and the US National Weather Service spends over a billion dollars a year _just on its sparse network of weather balloon stations_. A small handful of organizations then pipe that data into billion-dollar supercomputers to run the world’s most expensive physics simulations four times a day. Despite this cost, there are still places in the US [**where we don't know what the temperature is going to be two days from now**](https://web.archive.org/web/20240705002110/https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/how-accurate-is-the-weather-forecast/). And for the rest of the world that lacks adequate weather infrastructure? There’s always the [**weather rock**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_rock). AI models are upending the expensive physics simulations. These models are more accurate, running at higher resolutions for a fraction of the cost. But, like most AIs, weather models are hungry for _data,_ and the reality is that most of the world isn’t covered despite the costly infrastructure.This is because _direct_ observation (as opposed to satellite observation) is both incredibly impactful but also incredibly expensive. This cost leaves **most of the Earth without in-situ observations**. Oceans have especially poor coverage, and no matter how good your model is, you still need to know what’s happening over the Pacific today to predict the weather in SF tomorrow. Sorcerer is deploying a global network of low-cost, persistent weather drones to provide real-time data in previously unreachable locations. Our system collects 30x more observations than the entire global observation infrastructure at 1% the cost. We use this data to train a weather model that’s already competitive with best-in-class traditional weather prediction, while being 10,000x cheaper." } ], "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sorcerer", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/sorcerer.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/sorcerercorp", "x_url": "", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": "https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sorcerer", "github_url": "https://github.com/sorcerer-corp", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/543dab64586e13bb93c11e6012ecd070fb8c8a67.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [ "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/attachments/ffc46de4c072ee18d52ad35baaaefdb696ca57f7.png" ], "primary_partner": { "name": "Diana Hu", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/diana-hu" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 563504, "full_name": "Austin Tindle", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "CEO at Sorcerer. Engineering and product leader of decacorn hardware teams. Previously Head of Product at SumUp, led acquisition of Fivestars (YC W11).", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/austintindle", "x_url": "https://x.com/_austintindle", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/6907374cc6f41e1784fd922204f4bf1da1976e52.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1982858, "full_name": "Maxmillion McLaughlin", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "CTO of Sorcerer. Previously, first hire at Urban Sky where I led development of high-resolution stratospheric imaging systems for mapping cities and tracking wildfires.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxmclau/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/edec734a752bb1817cc9bc04e9089b0c5250788e.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1982860, "full_name": "Alessandro Vecchi", "title": "Founder/CPO", "founder_bio": "CPO of Sorcerer. I was employee #3 at Urban Sky, where I built their mission control software (\"the best in the world\" - US Secretary of Defense) and prediction engine from the ground up. Over 5 years of experience working with/dealing with forecast and weather data. Building software products since I was in high school.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/avecchi/", "x_url": "https://x.com/big_veech", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/665d0ba4bdc25d0c61592f32c2caa08dec803f04.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "Y Combinator startup Sorcerer raises $3.9M to launch more weather balloon", "url": "https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2025/06/12/sorcerer-seed-weather-balloons", "date": "Jun 12, 2025" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 83172, "title": "Sorcerer - Weather balloons that collect 1000x more data", "tagline": "Sorcerer builds weather balloons that last for over six months, collecting 1000x more data per dollar from previously inaccessible regions.", "body": "![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdhaRDb6jJZ-jlGUyRp-3-n13VeXn3891lqS1FiV2F80tyntvz2hIWMa4p-4IBuZ_jYh8C1Xg2_jlzBMtO-SSYSaiHp6nwjxQkUJ4iDx756wC7zfboXTd5DEVI3WaWNb0XbXGKK7w5rmDjUS4dW_8IbhaM?key=hflpXWIGtnGX0Lu39DmmlA)\n\nHey YC! We’re [Max](https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxmclau/), [Alex](https://www.linkedin.com/in/avecchi/), and [Austin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/austintindle/), the team behind [Sorcerer](https://sorcerer.earth).\n\n**The problem & background**\n\nHundreds of terabytes of weather data are collected from satellites, ground stations, airplanes, and weather balloons every day. In-situ weather observation has the most impact on weather models, but it’s incredibly expensive to collect. The US National Weather Service spends over a billion dollars annually _just on its network of weather balloons, stations, and aircraft sensors_. Despite this cost, there are still places in the US [where we don't know what the temperature will be two days from now](https://web.archive.org/web/20240705002110/https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2024/how-accurate-is-the-weather-forecast/). And for the 80% of the world that lacks any weather infrastructure? There’s always the [weather rock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_rock).\n\n**The solution**\n\nWe’re launching a global network of persistent weather balloons to provide real-time data in previously unreachable locations. Each balloon remains airborne for over six months, completing \\~30 laps around the globe while navigating between sea level and 65,000 feet. We’re able to collect 1000x more data per dollar than current systems, and we use this unique data to train AI weather models that are up to 50% more accurate than today’s best forecasts. \n\n\n\n**The Team**\n\nAs founding engineer at aerospace startup [Urban Sky](https://www.urbansky.com/), Max developed the world’s first stratospheric ballooning systems for high-resolution imaging and wildfire tracking. As employee number three at Urban Sky, Alex built their mission control and flight prediction engine from the ground up (“the best in the world” - US Secretary of Defense). Austin was an ultralight flight instructor before he could legally drive and was most recently Head of Product at [SumUp](https://www.sumup.com/en-us/), shipping highly regulated hardware at scale.\n\n**How You Can Help**\n\n* **Industry intros:** We’d love to talk with aerospace, commercial aviation, ocean freight, logistics, and commodities trading execs (these folks think weather data is pretty neat)\n* **If you find one of our balloons near SF**: Sorry! It’s still a work in progress (and please get it back to us)\n\nWe’d also love to hear from you! Reach out any time at [austin@sorcerer.earth](mailto:austin@sorcerer.earth)  \n\nBest,\n\nMax, Alex, & Austin\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfcNhE481xXzkiV3QVQ7bg2bDc4PCU74OYnk6YZZJVbqnpL0CAUknXkFEocEj9MqXJOghGBGnQU0YWXMr9E2j-CeiVHbKLzwKy7PV33p0rM27WB1s_WpSsNZp7xV2fhDo5QnBEUXHJj501V8MDVTuF1-j0H?key=hflpXWIGtnGX0Lu39DmmlA)\n\n# ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LdU-sorcerer-weather-balloons-that-collect-1000x-more-data", "votes": 84, "created_at": "2024-08-19T16:13:50.662Z" } ] }, { "id": 29661, "name": "Silurian", "slug": "silurian", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/264e2c359db5aaec1e0417e61bfa018c5458c3dc.png", "website": "https://silurian.ai/", "all_locations": "Seattle, WA, USA", "long_description": "Silurian is building foundation models for simulating Earth, starting with weather. From assessing the risk of wildfires to predicting the energy grid load, we provide an infrastructure layer for our planet. Our frontier models push the boundaries of what can be simulated on Earth and improve decision making across vital sectors including energy, insurance, agriculture, and logistics. \r\n", "one_liner": "Foundation models to simulate Earth, starting with weather.", "team_size": 6, "industry": "Industrials", "subindustry": "Industrials -> Climate", "launched_at": 1723594839, "tags": [ "Climate", "Insurance", "Agriculture", "Energy", "AI" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": true, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Summer 2024", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Industrials", "Climate" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada", "Remote", "Partly Remote" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/silurian", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/summer-2024/silurian.json", "year_founded": 2024, "city": "Seattle", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/silurianai", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/SilurianAI", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/silurian-ai/", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/264e2c359db5aaec1e0417e61bfa018c5458c3dc.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": null, "founders": [ { "user_id": 1974056, "full_name": "Jayesh K. Gupta", "title": "Founder/CEO", "founder_bio": "Jayesh is Co-founder and CEO of Silurian AI. Previously he was the Head of AI at Poly Corporation. He led the development of the first foundation model for weather & climate as researcher at Microsoft and was the co-author of Aurora. Jayesh holds a Ph.D. in CS from Stanford.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayeshkg/", "x_url": "https://x.com/rejuvyesh", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/3b2c8dc753ea95bb3e34ce4114e9431fea3cdea4.jpg" }, { "user_id": 1988161, "full_name": "Nikhil Shankar", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Nikhil is a co-founder and chief engineer at Silurian AI. Previously he was a software engineer at AWS SageMaker and prior to that he dropped out of his PhD in applied mathematics where he was working on problems in fluid dynamics.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhil-shankar-3090131b7/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9dc04e3799ba4d8f4545296148cba73d66480079.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 81736, "title": "Machine Learning Research Engineer / Scientist", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/silurian/jobs/eexfBWN-machine-learning-research-engineer-scientist", "location": "Seattle, WA, US", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Machine learning", "salary_range": "$120K - $250K", "equity_range": "0.25% - 1.00%", "experience": "Any (new grads ok)", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [] } ], "news": [ { "title": "AI Startups Urge Congress to Preserve Access to Weather Data", "url": "https://www.riskmarketnews.com/ai-startups-urge-congress-to-preserve-access-to-weather-data/", "date": "Jul 21, 2025" }, { "title": "Startup radar: Early stage tech companies making moves in Seattle – GeekWire", "url": "https://www.geekwire.com/2024/startup-spotlight-early-stage-tech-companies-making-moves-in-seattle/", "date": "Oct 25, 2024" }, { "title": "9 startups that stood out on YC Demo Day 2 | TechCrunch", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/26/9-startups-that-stood-out-on-yc-demo-day-2/", "date": "Sep 26, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 83141, "title": "Silurian - Simulate the Earth", "tagline": "Foundation models for simulating Earth, starting with weather. ", "body": "# **The Problem**\n\nEvery day, crucial decisions are made based on outdated geospatial simulations. \n\nInsurance companies guess more than they would like about hurricane risks. Airports can't predict tomorrow's delays, let alone next week's. Meanwhile, utilities are crossing their fingers every heatwave that the grid won't collapse.\n\nEarth’s simulation infrastructure needs an upgrade.\n\n# **The Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83141&key=user_uploads/1992622/3f194f0b-cfe1-4af7-a41a-e12d0d081aa7)\n\nToday, [Silurian](https://silurian.ai/) is announcing the launch of GFT (Generative Forecasting Transformer), a 1.5B frontier model that simulates global weather up to 14 days ahead at approximately 11km resolution with unprecedented accuracy. Our model outperforms numerical weather prediction systems from the American (NOAA) and European (ECMWF) agencies by up to 30% across multiple variables. \n\nRemember Hurricane Beryl? In a simulation (shown above) run on the 1st of July, GFT correctly predicted that the hurricane would hit Texas. In contrast, the NOAA and ECMWF models wrongly predicted a landfall in Mexico, as [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/07/29/science/ai-weather-forecast-hurricane.html) recently reported. \n\nGFT is immediately available to our customers via our **Artificial Planetary Intelligence (API)**. The API allows users to easily query our models at any location on Earth, and it will become publicly available in the next few weeks. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83141&key=user_uploads/1992622/aadb6eff-4273-443f-abab-ff9244da3dcf)\n\nGFT is only the beginning. We are working towards state-of-the-art simulation infrastructure for verticals such as energy, climate, and agriculture.\n\n# **Team**\n\nWe are a team of scientists and engineers with years of experience in building large-scale AI simulations at Microsoft Research and Google Brain. Our work on weather and atmospheric chemistry simulations at Microsoft has been featured in [Nature](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01677-2), [Bloomberg,](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-25/from-trump-to-ai-bill-gates-sees-climate-impacts-for-the-world) and [The Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-is-learning-to-predict-the-weather-8968fa7c?st=d0o2so2v9r14bf2&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink).\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXd9eEb9mwTRMRPXQpJ6vkWtFRoUpGCc5sXpXIukdbAGyLsmWCAoqAKCOwXLbWfQZuFuGxg4Mu6qNyRHpIsoRKYlhDbnr8Qx0XCnUl26oa_T2ftzOsL4W3BijCebKj6OXA4oUoXWDnrqjJnqDIvGJz-SP5RL?key=P6HArdzTsIyNOARHbY8cEw)\n\n# **Our Ask**\n\nDo you want to talk about the weather? Reach out to us at [founders@silurian.ai](mailto:founders@silurian.ai)! ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Lcz-silurian-simulate-the-earth", "votes": 46, "created_at": "2024-08-16T23:09:17.361Z" } ] }, { "id": 29724, "name": "Ontra Mobility", "slug": "ontra-mobility", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/232f7609d7e1de5c6a2ce76251083a8161f16672.png", "website": "https://www.ontramobility.com", "all_locations": "New York City, NY, USA; Remote", "long_description": "Ontra Mobility is founded by two former Googler engineers with PhDs in operations research. Ontra helps cities and other transit agencies increase ridership through data-driven planning and real-time optimization. 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Prior to joining YC, they worked on [MARTA Reach](https://itsmarta.com/reach.aspx) in Atlanta, GA, and [CAT Smart](https://catchacat.org/smart/) in Savannah, GA.\n\n## **🙏 Ask: How you can help**\n\n* Share this post and spread the word!\n* Connect us to private- or public- **transit agency employees** or **board members**, **politicians,** and **transit advocates**. [founders@ontramobility.com](mailto:founders@ontramobility.com)\n\n Quick blurb to copy and paste: [Ontra Mobility](https://www.ontramobility.com/) is founded by two former Google engineers with PhDs in [operations](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XZ4e0UwAAAAJ&hl=en) [research](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=z3j6J0cAAAAJ&hl=en). Ontra helps cities and other transit agencies increase ridership through data-driven planning and real-time optimization. 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", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83713&key=user_uploads/1489854/7e0ffedf-fdc5-45ce-ade1-c091f6c96ea5)\n\n# **TL;DR** - We should train future large AI models in space to make use of abundant solar energy, cooling, and the ability to freely scale up.\n\nHey all, we're building data centers in space. We’re launching our first satellite next year, which will have the most powerful GPUs ever put in space by >100x. We will launch a larger iteration each year until we reach gigawatt scale.\n\n## **❌The Problem**\n\nFuture hyperscale data centers will put a huge strain on electricity grids, freshwater distribution, and the Western world’s permitting systems. It will simply not be possible to deploy multi-gigawatt scale data centers rapidly in the way we build data centers today.\n\n## **✨Our Solution**\n\nWe take advantage of falling launch costs to make use of inexpensive solar energy in space and low-cost passive radiative cooling, rapidly scaling up orbital data centers almost indefinitely without the physical or permitting constraints faced on Earth. This will ensure we can continue training ever larger models without destroying the environment.\n\n## **⚙️ Read our white paper**\n\nCheck out our [**white paper**](https://lumenorbit.com/wp) for more information on why space data centers are the future and how we’re going about making this happen.\n\nSee a short video on the design [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIaKDUzFMpk).\n\n## **🏆 What we’ve achieved so far**\n\n* Booked our first launch (May 2025) and our second launch (H2 2026)\n* Set up our payload manufacturing facility in Redmond, WA\n* Designed and started building and testing our first spacecraft, with the fastest GPUs to ever launch to space by \\~100x\n* Created concept designs for our micro data center (2026 launch) and our Hypercluster data center (launching when Starship-class launch vehicles enter commercial service)\n* Secured high-value LOIs for H100 compute time in space\n\n## **🔜 What’s next**\n\n* Launch and complete our demonstrator mission, which will train the first LLM in space!\n* Prototype our micro-data center design\n* Secure contracts which incumbent hyper scalers\n\n## **👥 Our Team**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83713&key=user_uploads/1489854/22431fb2-7f3d-42f8-b2a2-32f684a6cf2b)\n\n[**Philip**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnstonphilip/), CEO, is a second-time founder who has worked at McKinsey & Co. working on satellite projects for national space agencies. Philip has an MPA in National Security & Technology from Harvard University, an MBA from Wharton, an MA in Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics from Columbia University, and is a CFA Charter holder.\n\n[**Ezra**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ezrafeilden/), CTO, has a decade of experience with satellite design, specializing in deployable solar arrays and large deployable structures. Ezra comes from Airbus Defense & Space (SSTL) and Oxford Space Systems, where he worked on missions including NASA's Lunar Pathfinder. Ezra has a PhD in Materials Engineering from Imperial College London.\n\n[**Adi**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/adioltean/), Chief Engineer, was previously a Principal Software Engineer at SpaceX, where he was part of the Starlink network team enabling Starlink for in-motion users, including Starship. Before that, he deployed the first LLMs on large GPU production clusters at Microsoft, where he also delivered more than 25 patents in more than two decades. 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If you are or know any hardcore engineers with experience in aerospace or data center infrastructure and are interested in working with the Starcloud team, please get in touch!\n\n[**https://www.starcloud.com/careers**](https://www.lumenorbit.com/careers)\n\nWe are also interested in talking to operators and customers of hyperscale training clusters who are contemplating the scale-up from megawatts to gigawatts.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/LmD-starcloud-data-centers-in-space", "votes": 44, "created_at": "2024-09-03T19:42:08.218Z" } ] }, { "id": 31512, "name": "Aernata", "slug": "aernata", "former_names": [ "Pentagon" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ab4158325222f50847060cb687cc1b6c81e65dbc.png", "website": "https://aernata.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Aernata is an American chemicals company producing clean fuel from industrial emissions.\r\n\r\nWe're starting by converting CO2 to methanol for synthetic fuel production.", "one_liner": "Making clean methanol out of CO2.", "team_size": 2, "industry": "Industrials", "subindustry": "Industrials -> Energy", "launched_at": 1775312221, "tags": [ "Carbon Capture and Removal", "Alternative Fuels", "Climate", "Energy" ], "tags_highlighted": [], "top_company": false, "isHiring": false, "nonprofit": false, "batch": "Spring 2026", "status": "Active", "industries": [ "Industrials", "Energy" ], "regions": [ "United States of America", "America / Canada" ], "stage": "Early", "app_video_public": false, "demo_day_video_public": false, "app_answers": null, "question_answers": null, "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/aernata", "api": "https://devasheeshg.github.io/yc-api/batches/spring-2026/aernata.json", "year_founded": 2026, "city": "San Francisco", "country": "US", "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/aernata", "x_url": "https://x.com/aernata", "fb_url": null, "cb_url": null, "github_url": "https://github.com/aernata", "logo_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/ab4158325222f50847060cb687cc1b6c81e65dbc.png", "app_video_url": null, "dday_video_url": null, "company_photos": [], "primary_partner": { "name": "Tom Blomfield", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/people/tom-blomfield" }, "founders": [ { "user_id": 402484, "full_name": "Edgar Pavlovsky", "title": "Founder", "founder_bio": "Founder @ Aernata (P26) - an American chemicals company producing clean fuel from industrial emissions.\n\nPreviously founded: marginfi (DeFi lending on Solana), mtndao (Solana's largest builder community), a trading firm & a logistics SaaS.\n\nBefore that: Uber, Goldman Sachs.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/edgarpavlovsky/", "x_url": "https://x.com/edgarpavlovsky", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/6b30edf88abaa421a8619ecae8211bf532982bbb.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 101681, "title": "Pentagon - A coordination layer for humans and agents.", "tagline": "A new kind of team: humans and agents, working together.", "body": "Hey YC! I'm [Edgar](https://www.linkedin.com/in/edgarpavlovsky/), building [Pentagon](https://pentagon.run).\n\n**TL;DR** Agents are everywhere but they don't have good ways to work together, so humans become the coordination bottleneck. Pentagon is a coordination layer where your agents communicate autonomously, coordinate on tasks, and get work done as a team.\n\n**Book a demo and see it in action:** \\\n**Our launch video:** \n\n**Problem**\n\nAgents are increasingly becoming AI teammates at work - coding, researching, ops, even talking to customers. But they work alone. Coordination is the bottleneck, and it shows up differently depending on where you sit:\n\n* **Small teams** are spinning up agents from scratch and immediately hitting the ceiling: each one is powerful on its own, but getting them to actually work together means you're back in the loop, copy/pasting between terminals.\n* **Enterprises** already have agents running everywhere across the org. 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They target a single pest species, stay safe for humans, pollinators, and the environment, and can be reprogrammed over time as pests evolve resistance.\n\nPesticides underpin modern agriculture and food security, accounting for $80B in annual spend. Without effective pesticides, we can't grow enough food.\n\n\n\n**The Problem 🌱**\n\nPests are developing resistance faster than new pesticides can be invented to replace the failing ones. At the same time, regulators are banning core active ingredients over environmental and human toxicity. Farmers are losing tools from both ends at once.\n\n**Our Solution 🪲**\n\nWe build pesticides out of insect virus-like particles. We start with a virus that only infects insects and is harmless to humans. We strip out its genome so it can't infect or replicate, and we keep the empty protein shell as a delivery vehicle.\n\nWe engineer that shell with two parts:\n\n* A **targeting element** that recognizes a single pest species (or a set of species). This is what keeps the product species-specific and invisible to humans, pollinators, and beneficial insects.\n* A **payload** that kills the pest.\n\nBoth parts are swappable. Changing the targeting element will modify which pest it kills. Changing the payload will result in a new kill mechanism for the same pest, which is how we update the product when resistance appears.\n\nDesigning for true pollinator safety is hard, so we did the underlying science ourselves. We solved a cryo-EM structure of a key receptor in honey bees, which lets us deliberately engineer our targeting elements so they do not bind pollinators.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=108796&key=user_uploads/2273508/62f4362a-1938-4843-ab26-c9a62c742a84)\n\n**Why Us? 🧑🏽‍🔬**\n\nWe are Zaky and Min, viral structural biology PhD candidates and lab mates at the University of Toronto, where we have worked together for the past 6 years studying how viruses interact with their hosts. We have published in Nature Microbiology and Nature Communications, and Min holds the world record for the highest-resolution structure of a coronavirus spike protein.\n\n**Traction 📈**\n\nWe have signed our first grower LOI, have more in the pipeline, and produced our first set of viruses for testing. During the batch we also solved a cryo-EM structure of a honey-bee receptor that directly informs our pollinator-safe design.\n\n**Connect with us!**\n\n* **Growers and producers**: if you are fighting resistant pests or losing tools to bans, we would love to talk about your crops and target pests. Reach us at [molagri.com](http://molagri.com) \n* **Everyone else:** intros to ag and crop-science operators, or anyone who has built regulated biological products, are always welcome.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SIm-molagri-resistance-free-pesticides", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2026-08-03T18:35:06.582Z" } ] } ]