Four Growers YC Application
Four Growers went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2018 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 2018
- Industry
- IndustrialsAgriculture
- Team size
- 14
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2018
Founders
Brandon ContinoFounder/CEO
Dan ChiFounder/CTO
What Four Growers does
Four Growers was founded to provide healthy, affordable, local produce by reducing the production costs of greenhouse growers through robotics technology. We are positioning ourselves to be the automated solutions provider for greenhouse crop management. We are working closely with various greenhouse growers to develop a tomato harvesting robot. Our technology relies on two layers of protection, patents filed protecting the physical design of the robot and a proprietary algorithm that controls the robot's decision making. Our solution is not only capable of harvesting the tomatoes, but also of performing a quality check and packaging.
Four Growers's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Four Growers, Summer 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Four Growers
Robots that feed the world - robotic harvesting and analytics
We're building a robot to harvest tomatoes in greenhouses. It picks, checks quality, and packages fruit automatically, cutting labor and production costs for growers. Our system combines a patented physical robot design with proprietary decision-making algorithms.
We live in Pittsburgh, PA, and plan to base the company here after YC.
We've built strong local relationships with greenhouse growers here and have our technical team in Pittsburgh, so it makes sense to stay where we can iterate quickly and access talent.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Four Growers YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Four Growers's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Four Growers would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Four Growers in?
Four Growers was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2018 batch.
Who founded Four Growers?
Four Growers was founded by Brandon Contino, Dan Chi.
What does Four Growers do?
Robots that feed the world - robotic harvesting and analytics
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Four Growers's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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