Hestus, Inc. YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Hestus, Inc. went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2024 batch as a B2B 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 2024
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Sohrab HaghighatFounder
Kevin ChuFounder

What Hestus, Inc. does

Hestus is AI-powered CAD software that speeds up hardware development. While engineers are typically quick at coming up with initial design concepts, they are bogged down getting from idea to the final design due to countless tedious and repetitive tasks. We are building CAD software that automates these mundane tasks and speeds up the design execution process, while letting engineers spend more time on the creative part of the design process.

Hestus, Inc.'s YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Hestus, Inc., Summer 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Hestus, Inc.

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-powered CAD software

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

We're building CAD software that automates tedious, repetitive design tasks to speed up hardware development. Our product helps engineers move from initial concept to final design faster by handling the manual parts of CAD work, letting them focus on creative problem solving.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we're based because it's where we live and where we have access to hardware engineers and design teams who are our earliest users and potential customers.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Hestus, Inc. YC application?

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