Artifact YC Application

Winter 2025Active

Artifact went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2025 batch as a B2B 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 2025
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Antony Samuel
Corbin Klett

What Artifact does

Artifact is a collaborative IDE for hardware engineers - accelerating every step in the engineering lifecycle: Design → Procurement → Manufacturing → Integration → Test → Sustainment We've raised $3.5M to build an integrated, verifiable AI copilot with an intuitive UI that reflects how hardware actually gets built. Every artifact is auto-generated and traceable to a single-source of truth. We believe hardware engineering should be rigorous, deliberate, and system-aware. We work directly with customers solving the world's hardest technical problems to modernize how complex hardware is engineered. If you're interested, send your resume & contact info to:

Artifact's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Artifact, Winter 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Artifact

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Collaborative AI-native IDE for hardware engineers

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

We are building a collaborative IDE tailored for hardware engineers that supports the entire engineering lifecycle from design to sustainment. Our product integrates design, procurement, manufacturing, integration, testing, and sustainment workflows into one platform. It includes an AI copilot that generates verifiable artifacts tied to a single source of truth, making hardware development more deliberate and transparent.

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

We currently live in New York City, NY and plan to base the company here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York City is where we built our network and early customer relationships. It's also where we can best recruit engineers who understand hardware development workflows.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Artifact YC application?

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