Enhanced Radar YC Application

Winter 2025Active

Enhanced Radar went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2025 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 2025
Industry: IndustrialsAviation and Space
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Eric ButtonFounder
Kristian GaylordFounder

What Enhanced Radar does

Enhanced Radar is building better, safer air traffic control systems.

Enhanced Radar's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Enhanced Radar

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI for air traffic control

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

We're building AI software that improves air traffic control by automating monitoring and predictive conflict detection. Our system processes radar and sensor data to help controllers keep planes safely spaced and reduce human error.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where the aerospace and AI communities intersect. It provides access to talent and potential customers in aviation tech startups and government.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Enhanced Radar YC application?

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