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YC Industrials Companies
273 Y Combinator industrials startups with verified founder contacts, batch info, and company data.
273
Companies
233
Active
17
Acquired
3
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YC Company Directory
50 companies
Company | Batch | Description | Status | Location | Team | Site | Founders | Reveal |
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Perseus Defense | S25 | America's Golden Dome for Drones | Active | — | 3 | Jason Cornelius, Steve Messinger | Reveal | |
Verne Robotics | S25 | AI models that teach robots new skills in hours | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 4 | Neil Nie, Aditya Jha | Reveal | |
1849 bio | S24 | Engineering microbes for miners to unlock billions in trapped metal | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 3 | Jai Padmakumar, Yongjin Park | Reveal | |
Ares Industries | S24 | Building low-cost cruise missiles | Active | El Segundo, CA, USA | 2 | Alex Tseng | Reveal | |
AutoPallet Robotics | S24 | We make robots that move boxes in warehouses | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 6 | Nathan Yee, Eric Miller | Reveal | |
Autumn Labs | S24 | Datadog for industrial robots | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 3 | Prathik Muppidi, Harsh Bhatt, Sam Monga | Reveal | |
Azalea Robotics Corporation | S24 | Automating airport baggage handling with robots. | Active | Berkeley, CA, USA | 2 | David Millard, John B. Stroud | Reveal | |
Bucket Robotics | S24 | Defect detection for manufacturing built from CAD and synthetic data. | Active | — | 4 | Matt Puchalski | Reveal | |
Conductor Quantum | S24 | Quantum computers on silicon chips using AI. | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 3 | Brandon Severin, Joel Pendleton | Reveal | |
Ember Robotics | S24 | Datadog for robots | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 2 | Shivani Mouleeswaran, Ritika Shrivastava | Reveal | |
Guardian RF | S24 | Drone detection for US defense and national security | Active | — | 15 | Lucas Raskin, John Andrzejewski, Eli Kerstein | Reveal | |
Ionworks | S24 | Simulation software used by leading battery and automotive companies | Active | — | 5 | Valentin Sulzer, Rob Timms | Reveal | |
Mineflow | S24 | Mineflow predicts the shape and location of mineral deposits | Active | — | 2 | Ryan Goggins | Reveal | |
NetworkOcean | S24 | We build and operate underwater data centers. | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 4 | Sam Mendel, Eric Kim | Reveal | |
Plume | S24 | Renewable infrastructure deployment at scale. | Active | Paris, France | 4 | Edouard Labarthe, Marc W | Reveal | |
Rewbi | S24 | Rewbi uses AI to increase grid-connected battery storage revenue 2x | Active | — | 2 | Thomas Marge, Derek Modzelewski | Reveal | |
Sensei | S24 | Robotic Training Data at Scale | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 2 | Anubhav Guha, John Piotti | Reveal | |
Silurian | S24 | Foundation models to simulate Earth, starting with weather. | Active | Kirkland, WA, USA | 6 | Jayesh K. Gupta, Cristian Bodnar, Nikhil Shankar | Reveal | |
Sorcerer | S24 | Building a nervous system for the atmosphere | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 4 | Austin Tindle, Maxmillion McLaughlin, Alessandro Vecchi | Reveal | |
Spaceium Inc | S24 | In-Space Refueling | Active | — | — | Ashi Dissanayake, Reza Fetanat | Reveal | |
Starcloud | S24 | Data centers in space | Active | Redmond, WA, USA | 12 | Philip Johnston, Ezra Feilden, Adi Oltean | Reveal | |
Theseus | S24 | GPS Denied Navigation for Drones | Active | — | 3 | Ian Laffey, Sacha Lévy | Reveal | |
Ultra | S24 | Practical, general-purpose robots for repetitive industrial tasks | Active | New York, NY, USA | 4 | Jon Miller Schwartz, Max Friefeld, Chetan Parthiban | Reveal | |
Vendra | S24 | Custom Parts, Manufactured in America 🇺🇸 | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 5 | Shan Mohta, Anish Bhardwaj | Reveal | |
Weave Robotics | S24 | Personal robots for the home--that ship in 2025 | Active | — | 10 | Evan Wineland, Kaan Dogrusoz | Reveal | |
Zettascale | S24 | Energy efficient chips for AI | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 4 | Elias Almqvist, Prithvi Raj | Reveal | |
Feanix Biotechnologies | S23 | Farm Genetics Made Easy - Using DNA and Software | Active | — | 5 | Mitchell Angove, Tom Bishop | Reveal | |
HyLight | S23 | Small unmanned hydrogen airships for long range monitoring | Active | Paris, France | 22 | Thomas Laporte, Martin Bocken, Josef Rokusek | Reveal | |
Ohmic Biosciences | S23 | Genetically engineering plants for disease resistance. | Active | Alameda, CA, USA | 2 | PJ Steiner, Matthew Bedewitz | Reveal | |
Airhart Aeronautics | S22 | Airplanes anyone can fly | Active | Long Beach, CA, USA | 6 | Nikita Ermoshkin | Reveal | |
ALT TEX | S22 | Biodegradable and carbon neutral textiles, engineered from food waste. | Active | Toronto, ON, Canada | 10 | Myra Arshad, Avneet Ghotra | Reveal | |
Array Labs | S22 | We're building satellites to create a real-time 3D map of the world. | Active | Palo Alto, CA, USA | 30 | Andrew Peterson, Jose Isaac Robledo | Reveal | |
Birch Biosciences | S22 | We recycle plastic using engineered enzymes | Active | Portland, OR, USA | 10 | Johan Kers | Reveal | |
Cerrion | S22 | Video AI to automatically detect and respond to production line… | Active | Zürich, Switzerland | 16 | Karim Saleh, Nikolay Kobyshev | Reveal | |
Evoly | S22 | Smart electric & water meters as a service | Active | Remote, OR 97458, USA | 4 | Hassan Lantry, Sami El Bouari | Reveal | |
MaverickX | S22 | Engineering the future of chemistry for natural resource extraction | Active | San Antonio, TX, USA | 20 | Eric Herrera | Reveal | |
Paces | S22 | Agentic AI for Power Projects and AI Infrastructure | Active | New York, NY, USA | 40 | James McWalter, Charles Bai | Reveal | |
Polymath Robotics | S22 | General Autonomy for Industrial Vehicles | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 13 | Stefan Seltz-Axmacher, Ilia Baranov | Reveal | |
Seaflight Technologies | S22 | We make the world's most efficient aircraft | Active | Carson, CA, USA | 4 | Graham Doig | Reveal | |
Velontra | S22 | Hypersonic space plane that can take-off from any location and weather | Active | Cincinnati, OH, USA | 5 | Joel Darin | Reveal | |
Voltic | S22 | Electric cargo ships | Active | — | 5 | Prosser Cathey | Reveal | |
Wand Solar | S22 | We enable landlords to generate income from solar panels. | Active | Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel | 2 | Idan Shahar, Itai Peri | Reveal | |
Abatable | S21 | Carbon markets platform and solutions | Active | London, UK | 35 | Maria Eugenia Filmanovic, Valerio Magliulo | Reveal | |
Buoyant Aero | S21 | Bringing back blimps | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 2 | Benjamin Claman | Reveal | |
Carbonfact | S21 | Decarbonizing the fashion industry | Active | Paris, France | 22 | Marc Laurent, Romain Champourlier, Martin Daniel | Reveal | |
Charge Robotics | S21 | Robots that build solar farms | Active | Oakland, CA, USA | 25 | Banks Hunter, Max Justicz | Reveal | |
Enerjazz | S21 | Making electric vehicle batteries affordable | Active | Delhi, India | 9 | Ravi Bharihoke, Pratik Ranjan Das | Reveal | |
Ferveret | S21 | Liquid cooling solutions inspired by nuclear reactor cooling | Active | San Jose, CA, USA | 13 | Reza Azizian, Matteo Bucci | Reveal | |
Heimdal | S21 | Affordable and verified direct air carbon capture and storage | Active | Denver, CO, USA | 12 | Marcus Lima | Reveal | |
HEO Robotics | S21 | We visually monitor space objects for governments and defense | Active | Sydney NSW, Australia | 3 | Will Crowe, Hiranya Jayakody | Reveal |
Status Breakdown
About YC Industrials Companies
Y Combinator has funded 273 industrials companies since its founding in 2005. These startups span from early-stage pre-launch to publicly traded companies, making YC one of the most prolific backers of industrials innovation globally.
233 of these companies are currently active. 17 have been acquired. 3 have gone public. VCBacked tracks verified founder contact information, team sizes, and company status for every YC industrials startup.
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