Enlightra YC Application

Winter 2022Active

Enlightra went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 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 2022
Industry: Industrials
Team size: 22
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

John JostFounder
Maxim KarpovFounder

What Enlightra does

Enlightra develops mass-manufacturable fingertip-size multicolor lasers enabling ultrafast data communication and optical computing while providing up to 10x improvement in energy efficiency and cost reduction.

Enlightra's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Enlightra, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Enlightra

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Multicolor lasers for ultrafast data transmission

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

We make fingertip-size multicolor lasers that enable ultrafast data transmission and optical computing. Our lasers provide up to 10x better energy efficiency and lower cost compared to existing solutions, targeting data centers and industrial applications.

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

We live in Ecublens, VD, Switzerland, and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose Ecublens because it's where our founders are based and where we can access the engineering talent and infrastructure needed to build complex hardware.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Enlightra YC application?

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