Ares Industries YC Application

Profile updated September 9, 2026Summer 2024Active

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Ares Industries went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2024 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 2024
Industry: IndustrialsAviation and Space
Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Alex TsengCEO and Founder

Ares Industries's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Ares Industries, Summer 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Ares Industries

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Building low-cost cruise missiles

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

We build low-cost cruise missiles designed to make precision strike capabilities more accessible to defense customers. Our missiles focus on affordability without compromising effectiveness, enabling operators who face cost barriers to deploy advanced aerial systems.

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

We live in Los Angeles, CA, and after YC we will stay based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Los Angeles has a strong aerospace industry presence and talent pool, which fits our product and team. Staying here keeps us close to the industrial ecosystem and our operational advantages.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Ares Industries YC application?

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