Cerulion YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Cerulion went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2024 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: Summer 2024
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Lakshay SharmaFounder/CEO

What Cerulion does

Cerulion is an open source operating system for robots built by 2 MIT robotics PhDs. Companies like Amazon Robotics and Boston Dynamics AI Institute are using us to develop faster and ship more reliable robots than with ROS. With up to 1000x improvements in communications performance over state of the art, Cerulion is enabling the next generation of embodied AI.

Cerulion's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Cerulion

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Open source operating system for robots

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

We are building an open source operating system specifically for robots. Our OS improves communication performance by up to 1000x compared to existing systems like ROS, helping companies build and ship reliable robots faster. Our early users include organizations like Amazon Robotics and Boston Dynamics AI Institute.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA and would base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in San Francisco puts us at the center of the robotics and AI ecosystem. It gives us access to partners, potential customers, and talent essential for building a robotics OS.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Cerulion YC application?

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