Carbic YC Application

Winter 2016Active

Carbic went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2016 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 2016
Industry: IndustrialsEnergy
Team size: 8
Status: Active
Launched: 2015

Founders

Jed SomersFounder/CEO
Jeff GaroonFounder/President of R&D

What Carbic does

We are a sensor company that aims to accurately capture the behavior of high throughput fluid systems. With this information we can help improve operations while reducing spills and theft. This technology could change the way the oil and gas industry, water municipalities, and anyone dealing with high volume fluid, operates. Fleets of our proprietary lightweight hardware send raw ultrasonic data directly to our server via cellular/satellite; we then use a mix of physics equations, signal processing, and anomaly detection to determine the behavior of fluid (volume and speed) in pipes.

Carbic's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Carbic, Winter 2016 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Carbic

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Ultrasonic sensors analyzing fluid flow in infrastructure

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

We build lightweight ultrasonic sensors that mount on pipes and send raw data over cellular or satellite. Our servers process this data with physics models and machine learning to track fluid volume and speed, detecting spills and theft for oil, gas, and water infrastructure operators.

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

We live in San Francisco, and the company is based here now and will stay here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the talent and customer connections we need, plus infrastructure for hardware startups. It's where we have the strongest networks and access to early customers in energy and water sectors.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Carbic YC application?

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