Charge Robotics YC Application

Summer 2021Active

Charge Robotics went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2021 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 2021
Industry: IndustrialsManufacturing and Robotics
Team size: 25
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Banks HunterFounder
Max JusticzFounder

What Charge Robotics does

Charge Robotics is building robots that automate the most labor-intensive parts of solar construction. Solar has rapidly become the cheapest form of power generation in many regions. Demand has skyrocketed, and now the primary barrier to getting it installed is labor logistics and bandwidth. Our robots remove the labor bottleneck, allowing construction companies to meet the rising demand for solar, and enabling the world to switch to renewables faster.

Charge Robotics's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Charge Robotics, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Charge Robotics

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Robots that build solar farms

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

We build robots that automate the hardest parts of installing solar farms. Our machines handle the most labor-intensive tasks on site, reducing bottlenecks caused by labor shortages and scaling solar construction quickly.

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

We live in Oakland, CA, and the company is based here now and will remain here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Oakland is where we've built our early product and team. The industrial environment here suits our robotics work and connects us to customers and manufacturing.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Charge Robotics YC application?

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