Heart Aerospace YC Application

Winter 2019Active

Heart Aerospace went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2019 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 2019
Industry: IndustrialsAviation and Space
Team size: 50
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Anders ForslundFounder/CEO

What Heart Aerospace does

Heart makes electric airplanes.

Heart Aerospace's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Heart Aerospace, Winter 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Heart Aerospace

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Electric airplanes with 250-mile range

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

We are building a regional electric airplane with an all-electric range of 250 miles. It is designed to serve short-haul routes, replacing fossil fuel planes and reducing emissions in regional aviation.

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

We live and work in Los Angeles, CA, and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Los Angeles has access to aerospace talent and a growing climate tech ecosystem, which supports our work on electric aircraft. It is also convenient for our growing engineering team.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Heart Aerospace YC application?

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