Ember Robotics YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Ember Robotics 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: IndustrialsManufacturing and Robotics
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Shivani MouleeswaranFounder
Ritika ShrivastavaFounder

What Ember Robotics does

Ember builds hardware and system observability tools for robots and IoT devices. Founded by former Tesla Autopilot engineers, we help hardware teams catch failures early, reduce downtime, and iterate with confidence from prototype to scale.

Ember Robotics's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Ember Robotics

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Datadog for robots

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

We build hardware and system observability tools for robots and IoT devices. Our product helps robotics hardware teams identify failures early, reduce downtime, and improve iteration speed from prototype to scale.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA and plan to base the company there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We both live in San Francisco, the robotics and hardware ecosystem here gives us access to early users and hardware talent.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Ember Robotics YC application?

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