Hermes Robotics YC Application

Winter 2021Active

Hermes Robotics went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 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 2021
Industry: IndustrialsDefense
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Guilhem HerailFounder

Hermes Robotics's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Hermes Robotics, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Hermes Robotics

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Autonomous street sweeping by retrofitting vehicles

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

We retrofit existing street sweeping vehicles with our autonomous driving system to make them operate without human drivers. Our product combines robotics hardware and autonomous software to turn manual street sweepers into driverless machines that can clean streets more efficiently and safely. We target municipalities and city maintenance services that want to reduce labor costs and increase operational hours.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and intend to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we built our product and found initial users. It has the talent and resources we need to develop robotics and autonomous systems.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Hermes Robotics YC application?

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