Boom YC-Bewerbung

Winter 2016Active

Boom durchlief Y Combinator im Winter 2016-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 2016
Branche: IndustrialsAviation and Space
Teamgröße: 227
Status: Active
Gestartet: 2015

Gründer

Blake SchollFounder/CEO

Was Boom tut

Boom Supersonic is transforming air travel with Overture, the world’s fastest airliner, optimized for speed, safety, and sustainability. Serving both civil and government markets, Overture will fly at twice the speed of today’s airliners and is designed to run on 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Symphony™, a Boom-led collaboration with industry leaders, is the propulsion system that will power Overture. Overture’s order book, including purchases and options from American Airlines, United Airlines, and Japan Airlines stands at 130 aircraft. Boom is working with Northrop Grumman for government and defense applications of Overture. Suppliers and partners collaborating with Boom on the Overture program include Collins Aerospace, Eaton, Florida Turbine Technologies (FTT), a business unit of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc., GE Additive, Safran Landing Systems, StandardAero and the United States Air Force. For more information, visit Boom’s world-class engineering team comes from places including SpaceX, Boeing, Gulfstream, Virgin Galactic, Scaled Composites, NASA, and Bombardier. We have uniquely challenging and world-changing opportunities for the most talented aerospace engineers, designers, and business people.

Booms YC-Bewerbung, rekonstruiert

Y Combinator Bewerbung

Boom, Winter 2016 Batch. Die echten Fragen des Antrags, beantwortet aus öffentlichen Daten.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Boom

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Economically and environmentally sustainable supersonic travel

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

We are building Overture, a supersonic airliner that will fly twice as fast as current commercial planes. It's designed to run on 100% sustainable aviation fuel and to serve both civil and government markets. Symphony™, our propulsion system developed alongside industry partners, will power Overture. We focus on solving the challenge of eco-friendly, commercially viable supersonic flight.

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

We are based in Centennial and Englewood, Colorado, and would remain here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Our location in Colorado gives us access to aerospace talent from numerous leading companies and close collaboration with our partners such as Collins Aerospace and Northrop Grumman. It supports our work building a complex aerospace product.

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Häufig gestellte Fragen

Ist das die echte YC-Bewerbung von Boom?

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

In welchem YC-Batch war Boom?

Boom war Teil des Y Combinator Winter 2016-Batches.

Wer hat Boom gegründet?

Boom wurde von Blake Scholl gegründet.

Was macht Boom?

Economically and environmentally sustainable supersonic travel

Wie lese ich die vollständige, rekonstruierte Bewerbung?

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