Inevitable Tech YC Application

Winter 2016Inactive

Inevitable Tech went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2016 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 2016
Industry: IndustrialsAgriculture
Team size: 80
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2015

Founders

Brandon AlexanderFounder/CEO
Jonathan BinneyFounder/CTO

What Inevitable Tech does

Iron Ox is redesigning agriculture to confront its staggering environmental impacts and adapting farming to meet our future needs by making it a precise science that lets plants reach their full potential.

Inevitable Tech's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Inevitable Tech, Winter 2016 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Inevitable Tech

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

To make food a renewable resource, for everyone

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

We build robotic indoor farms that grow leafy greens with precise control using automation and data. Our product combines robotics, sensors, and climate control to make food production efficient and renewable, reducing environmental impacts of agriculture.

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

We live and are based in San Carlos, CA, and would continue here after YC due to access to talent and proximity to tech and agriculture innovation centers.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Carlos lets us attract engineers and operate our robotic farms near Silicon Valley, which fits our focus on advanced indoor agriculture technology.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Inevitable Tech YC application?

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