Beyond Reach Labs

Beyond Reach Labs YC-Bewerbung

Winter 2026Active

Beyond Reach Labs durchlief Y Combinator im Winter 2026-Batch als ein Industrials-Unternehmen. Unten: Was das Unternehmen tut, wer es gegründet hat und seine Bewerbung bei YC, Frage für Frage im echten YC-Formular rekonstruiert.

YC-Batch
Winter 2026
Branche
IndustrialsAviation and Space
Teamgröße
5
Status
Active
Gestartet
2026

Gründer

  • Mitchell Fogelson
    Mitchell FogelsonFounder | CEO
  • Pele Collins
    Pele CollinsFounder | CTO

Was Beyond Reach Labs tut

At Beyond Reach Labs we are building solar panels for Space that grow from the size of a dining table to a football field in orbit. Mitch and Pele met 13 years ago as freshmen at UPenn studying mechanical engineering. Mitch recently got his PhD at Carnegie Mellon working with NASA on kilometer-scale deployable structures, and Pele spent seven years at SpaceX leading Dragon parachute engineering, safely returning astronauts from space. The collective satellites today use around 20MW, roughly the output of a datacenter on earth, but by 2030 there is a demand for over 10GW, a 500x increase, largely driven by orbital datacenters, space stations, and lunar outposts. If you want more power, your only option is to launch larger solar panels, which quickly become fragile or impractically expensive. As a result, power constraints already determine whether missions or industries can exist at all. But at Beyond Reach Labs we have introduced a new class of deployable solar panels giving satellites 10x more usable power without increasing launch mass or volume. This works because our patented deployable design changes geometry in space, allowing for us to reach 10x longer while remaining rigid.

Beyond Reach Labss YC-Bewerbung, rekonstruiert

Y Combinator Bewerbung

Beyond Reach Labs, Winter 2026 Batch. Die echten Fragen des Antrags, beantwortet aus öffentlichen Daten.

  1. Founders2
  2. Company7
  3. Progress7
  4. Idea4
  5. Equity3
  6. Curious2
  7. Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Beyond Reach Labs

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Space solar arrays that grow in orbit

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We build solar panels designed specifically for space. Our panels launch about the size of a dining table but deploy in orbit to the size of a football field. The design lets us reach 10x longer solar arrays while keeping mass and launch volume low. This gives satellites much more power without the fragility and cost problems of today's large panels.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in New York, NY, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose New York because the team is here. Founders Mitch and Pele have strong personal and professional ties here, which makes recruiting and operations practical.

21 weitere Antworten in der vollständigen Bewerbung

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Häufig gestellte Fragen

Ist das die echte YC-Bewerbung von Beyond Reach Labs?

Nein. Y Combinator hält eingereichte Bewerbungen privat. Dies ist eine Rekonstruktion: die echten Fragen des YC-Formulars, beantwortet aus den öffentlichen Daten von Beyond Reach Labs (Veröffentlichungsnotizen, Gründerhintergründe, Produktbeschreibung). Sie zeigt, wie sich ein Unternehmen wie Beyond Reach Labs bei YC präsentieren würde, nicht den Text, den sie eingereicht haben.

In welchem YC-Batch war Beyond Reach Labs?

Beyond Reach Labs war Teil des Y Combinator Winter 2026-Batches.

Wer hat Beyond Reach Labs gegründet?

Beyond Reach Labs wurde von Mitchell Fogelson, Pele Collins gegründet.

Was macht Beyond Reach Labs?

Space solar arrays that grow to the size of a football field in orbit

Wie lese ich die vollständige, rekonstruierte Bewerbung?

Erstelle ein kostenloses Round Funded Konto. Die vollständige 26-Antwort-Version der Bewerbung von Beyond Reach Labs, und jede andere YC-Kohorte, findest du in YC Insights.

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