Airware YC Application

Winter 2013Inactive

Airware went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2013 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 2013
Industry: IndustrialsDrones
Team size: 51
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2013

Founders

Jonathan DowneyFounder/CEO
Brad SchillerFounder/Vice President Operations & Business Development

What Airware does

Airware offers commercial drone solutions, enabling enterprises to take full advantage of aerial data for any business application. Airware’s solutions combine hardware, software, and cloud services to enable companies to efficiently manage and safely and reliably operate commercial drones at scale.

Airware's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Airware, Winter 2013 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Airware

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

End-to-end commercial drone solutions

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

We build an integrated platform combining drone hardware, flight software, and cloud services that enables enterprises to safely deploy and manage drones across their operations. Our product helps companies collect, process, and analyze aerial data for industrial use cases at scale.

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

We live and operate in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is our home and is where we have access to the drone developer community, talent pool, and potential enterprise customers familiar with emerging drone technology.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Airware YC application?

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