Intelline YC Application

Winter 2019Active

Intelline 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: IndustrialsManufacturing and Robotics
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Kyle FallerFounder/CEO & CTO
Chris MathewFounder

What Intelline does

Intelline makes fuel agnostic engines for practical, clean, and low-cost industrial power. Our first customers are in data center energy infrastructure and oil & gas production. Our engine generate electricity with even the most difficult fuels like flare gas, while reducing fuel OPEX by 40%. There are 1,000,000 new heavy duty engines produced per year, and at an average $50k per heavy duty engine this is a $50B market opportunity. Our generator can efficiently run emerging fuel types that traditional diesel engines can't use (flare gas, syngas, ammonia, hydrogen), and can switch between fossil fuels and any other liquid/gaseous fuel while running. Full size running prototype successfully tested April 2025.

Intelline's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Intelline

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Fuel-agnostic, efficient industrial engines

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

We build fuel agnostic engines that can run efficiently on difficult fuels like flare gas, syngas, ammonia, and hydrogen. Our first product generates electricity for industrial power, specifically targeting data center energy infrastructure and oil & gas production. The engine can switch between fuel types while running and reduces fuel operational costs by about 40%.

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

We live in Waterloo, ON, Canada and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Waterloo has a strong engineering community and access to the technical talent we need to develop our hardware. It also allows us to be close to our early industrial customers.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Intelline YC application?

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