Almond YC Application

Spring 2025Active

Almond went through Y Combinator in the Spring 2025 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: Spring 2025
Industry: IndustrialsManufacturing and Robotics
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Saba Khalilnaji
Shawn Patel

What Almond does

We build robots for physical AI. Meet Axol - A dual-arm robot designed for real-world tasks using AI.

Almond's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Almond, Spring 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Almond

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

A dual-arm robot built for physical AI

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

We build Axol, a dual-arm robot designed to perform complex real-world tasks using AI. Our robot can manipulate objects and interact with environments that require physical dexterity, targeting applications where traditional automation falls short.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC as it's the best place to build hardware and robotics companies with access to talent and partners.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has a strong robotics ecosystem and hardware infrastructure, which is critical for developing a physical AI robot like Axol. We also want to stay close to early users and partners in manufacturing and automation here.

21 more answers in the full application

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Is this the real Almond YC application?

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