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In 2023, I co-founded Vista Power (fka. Vista Space) to help businesses use clean energy to save money on energy bills for $0 upfront. Previously, I worked on profit improvement at Starlink, built supply chain analytics tooling at Rocket Lab, and ran a software startup called Tour (acquired), which I co-founded in high school.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/maximkraft", "x_url": "https://twitter.com/2001kraft", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/cd4c7e3020f5390eae55ee60de1b4dc3091258c6.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 79713, "title": "Vista Space: Structural batteries for high performance spacecraft", "tagline": "Our batteries let spacecraft have 2x the energy capacity or save 15-30% in volume", "body": "### **TL;DR**\n\n**About Us** \\\n[Vista Space](https://govista.space/) builds Tesla-inspired structural batteries to increase satellites’ energy capacity without increasing their size. 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Today's spacecraft power systems are not capable enough to support both the current and next-generation mission concepts, leading satellite manufacturers to painful trade-offs: **limiting additional hardware** or **increasing system size** to get more power. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79713&key=user_uploads/293472/5a1ec437-b4ee-4544-b3ad-5082e2be92c3)\n\nWith reduced capabilities, companies lose their technological advantage. 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This allows satellite manufacturers to **double their energy capacity** without increasing size or **gain 15-30% more useful volume** at the same power budget. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79713&key=user_uploads/293472/a51852a8-0dfc-46a5-a2bf-049c29a42d7e)\n\n**Key Features:** \n\n* **Inspired by structural batteries in EVs** like the Tesla Model Y and Cybertruck \n* **Plug and play with any chassis size**, bolting onto the chassis in place of aluminum walls \n* **Compatible with third-party electrical & power system** (EPS) modules inside \n* CubeSat modules **include a solar cell**, and all form factors have the electrical components & thermal protection systems to **work out of the box** \n* **Additional radiation protection** for the contents inside the chassis \n* Launching **to space in February 2025** \n* Targeting **pricing to be middle of the market** for space batteries\n\n \n\n### **About Us**\n\nMaxim & Petar met at SpaceX, working on Starlink and Starship, respectively, and bonded over discussing opportunities for satellite design improvements. 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Helped secure a multi-billion-dollar battery gigafactory in Illinois.  \n\n### **The Ask**\n\n* Please share this post with your network, even outside the space industry! \n* If we’re building something you need, please reach out or send referrals to [sales@govista.space](mailto:founders@govista.space) or our website .\n* Leave an upvote!\n\n \n\n**Early adopter benefits:** Anyone who places a Pre-order gets personalized technical review sessions and priority delivery of the first production units. \n\nThanks all! 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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). 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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" } ] }, { "id": 33144, "name": "Grip", "slug": "grip", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/a6be2671c5d4e3adfe916a4a59aad4680c7cc9d3.png", "website": "https://www.griprobotics.ai", "all_locations": "Zürich, ZH, Switzerland", "long_description": "Grip is a robotics company building intelligent robotic systems for waste and recycling. We are starting with organic waste, where removing contaminants from messy, constantly changing streams remains difficult and highly manual. 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We're starting with plastic contamination in organic waste.\\\n\\\n\n\n**The problem**\n\nWe didn't start with a thesis, we found it on sorting lines, after visiting waste facilities across several countries:\n\n* **Contamination is existential.** Plastic that organic-waste facilities can't remove gets shredded, processed, and spread onto agricultural soil. Operators spend up to 30% of operating costs fighting it and still fall short. Even Germany's 0.1% limit for plastic in finished compost is a tacit admission that full removal isn't possible with today's tools.\n* **The labor force is aging and shrinking.** The picking work is unpleasant and turnover is brutal. Operators increasingly aren't choosing between people and robots. They're choosing between robots and nobody.\n* **Dangerous items cause fires.** Batteries, propane tanks, and vapes slip through and ignite during handling and shredding: 448 reported fires at US and Canadian waste facilities in 2025, \\~$2.5B in damage, and insurers are walking away. At the same time trash sorting is sitting in the top 5 of US deadliest occupations.\n\n**What we built**\n\nThe hard part isn't the gripper. It's that waste never looks the way you planned. Objects arrive crushed, folded, tangled, half-buried, and moving. Put today's sorting robots in front of this and they break.\n\nWe're building one manipulation system that picks whatever shows up, at the front of the line where the material is most chaotic and existing automation stops. That means chaotic scene understanding, robust grasp planning, and hardware built for real waste streams: our custom three-way gripper is designed to maximize throughput, taking out as much contamination per cycle as possible.\n\nOur rugged hardware matters, but intelligence is the product. Every pick generates data no other system ever encounters: what the robot saw, what it tried, how the material responded, whether it worked.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=111317&key=user_uploads/3678142/bc867fdc-9225-4b85-83f9-f83433465d5b)\n\n**Why now**\n\nWaste policy has moved from vague ambition to enforceable deadlines:\n\n* Separate bio-waste collection is now mandatory across the EU. More material, and more contamination, every year.\n* New EU fertiliser rules just cut permitted impurities in compost and digestate, with national limits like Germany's stricter still.\n* The US is real: California mandated a 75% cut in landfilled organics, missed it, and enforcement is ramping. At the same time, landfills near major cities are filling up, and that pressure is pushing more and more US municipalities to collect organic waste separately. More material, more contamination, more facilities that need to sort it.\n\nMore than 6,500 biowaste plants and thousands of recycling facilities across Europe and North America face this with no robot that can touch it. That's Grip.\n\n**Why us**\n\nWe've built autonomous race cars, quadrupeds, drones, and excavators, robots that operate in dirt, weather, and chaos rather than controlled labs. Grip is that experience applied to an industry where physical intelligence removes a real bottleneck.\n\n**Our ask**\n\nWe'd love intros to:\n\n* Owners and operators of composting, anaerobic-digestion, and organic-waste facilities\n* Owners and operators of MRFs and recycling facilities\n* Regulators and experts shaping contamination limits and recycling standards\n\nIf someone runs a facility and will show us their hardest sorting problem, we'll get on a plane.\n\n[**griprobotics.ai**](http://griprobotics.ai)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/SxR-grip-robotics-for-waste-management", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2026-08-19T13:00:00.941Z" } ] } ]