Airmada YC Application

Summer 2015Inactive

Airmada went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2015 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: Summer 2015
Industry: IndustrialsDrones
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2015

Founders

Dan DanayFounder/CEO
Boris LipchinFounder/CTO

What Airmada does

Airmada Inc. was founded out of MIT by Dan Danay. The mission of the company is to revolutionize commercial drone services by enabling efficient and reliable drone use for commercial and industrial purposes. Airmada designs and builds automated ground stations for drones. Our stations protect the drone, replace its batteries and launch missions. Airmada deploys these ground stations on mission sites to capture data, routinely and on-demand, operating drones autonomously and remotely.

Airmada's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Airmada, Summer 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Airmada

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Autonomous ground stations for drones

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

We build automated ground stations that protect drones, swap batteries, and launch missions. Our stations operate drones autonomously and remotely, deployed on commercial and industrial sites to capture data reliably and routinely without human pilots on site.

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

We live in Boston, MA, and the company is based there.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in Boston because that's where we started the company out of MIT, and it's a hub for robotics talent and early industrial customers.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Airmada YC application?

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