Aerones YC Application

Winter 2018Active

Aerones went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2018 batch as a Industrials company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Winter 2018
Industry: IndustrialsClimate
Team size: 250
Status: Active
Launched: 2017

Founders

Dainis KruzeFounder/CEO
Janis PutramsFounder/CTO

What Aerones does

We have created a robotic system for wind turbine blade maintenance. It can perform tasks such as lightning conductivity testing, high-resolution inspection, drainage hole cleaning, cleaning, painting and leading-edge repair.

Aerones's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Aerones, Winter 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Aerones

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Robotics for wind turbine maintenance.

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

We have built a robotic system that performs wind turbine blade maintenance. It does lightning conductivity testing, high-resolution inspections, cleans drainage holes, and handles cleaning, painting, and leading-edge repairs autonomously or with minimal human intervention.

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

We live and work in Riga, Latvia. The company will remain based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Riga has a strong engineering talent pool and is where we originally built our prototype and first customers gave us feedback. Staying local keeps overhead low and lets us focus on product development.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Aerones YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Aerones's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Aerones would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.