Flywheel AI YC Application

Summer 2025Active

Flywheel AI went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2025
Industry: IndustrialsManufacturing and Robotics
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Jash MotaFounder/CEO
Mahimana BhattFounder

What Flywheel AI does

Flywheel AI converts any existing excavators for contractors to enable remote ops to increase safety and productivity, and use robotics context dataset to train autonomous policies.

Flywheel AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Flywheel AI, Summer 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Flywheel AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Waymo for excavators

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

We convert existing excavators into remotely operable machines for contractors. Our hardware kit plus deep learning software lets operators control excavators from a distance, improving safety and productivity on construction sites. We also build datasets from real robotic context to train autonomous digging policies.

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

We live in San Francisco, and the company is based here now and would remain here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco gives us access to AI talent, hardware partners, and a strong network of early adopters in construction tech. Staying here keeps us close to resources we need to build both software and hardware parts well.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Flywheel AI YC application?

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