GroundControl YC Application

Spring 2025Active

GroundControl went through Y Combinator in the Spring 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: Spring 2025
Industry: IndustrialsAviation and Space
Team size: 8
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Mehul ShahCEO & Co-Founder
Matthew NoseworthyCTO & Co-Founder
Nick WarrenCOO & Co-Founder

What GroundControl does

GroundControl builds mission-critical software for manufacturers in highly-regulated industries (aerospace, defense, medical) Our core product automates lengthy, complex, and regulated quality documentation in aerospace manufacturing. As an example, the Boeing 777 is made up of over 3 million parts sourced from manufacturers around the world. These manufacturers must complete quality documentation for every part on this aircraft (machined parts, printed circuit boards, wire harnesses, assemblies, and more). GroundControl helps manufacturers complete this required documentation accurately, in minutes instead of days.

GroundControl's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

GroundControl, Spring 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

GroundControl

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Vertical AI for highly-regulated manufacturing

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

We build software that automates the complex, highly regulated quality documentation aerospace manufacturers must complete for every part. Our system replaces manual paperwork with a digital workflow that cuts hours or days down to minutes, reducing errors and compliance risks for clients like OEMs and their suppliers.

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

We live in San Francisco and will base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is the center of tech talent and where we've built our team. It's also close to aerospace hubs we work with and investors focused on industrial SaaS.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real GroundControl YC application?

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