Lucid Bots YC Application

Summer 2019Active

Lucid Bots went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2019
Industry: IndustrialsManufacturing and Robotics
Team size: 26
Status: Active
Launched: 2019

Founders

Andrew AshurFounder

What Lucid Bots does

At Lucid, we are a B2B robotics provider for dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs, starting with the cleaning industry, which has a 200% annual turnover rate. Our primary product is a drone that can clean anything from windows to roofs to stadium domes to industrial tanks. Our drones can clean up to 8x faster. Due to customer demand, we also launched a ground-based pressure-washing robot to complement our cleaning drone. We support customers around the country who use our robots every day to clean properties with great safety and efficiency. We engineer, manufacture, and support our technology from a 20,000 sqft headquarters in Charlotte, NC.

Lucid Bots's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Lucid Bots, Summer 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Lucid Bots

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Robots for dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs

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

We build robots that clean properties where humans face safety risks or inefficiencies. Our main product is a drone that cleans windows, roofs, stadium domes, and industrial tanks up to 8x faster than manual labor. We also make a ground-based pressure-washing robot to handle jobs drones can't reach or complement aerial cleaning.

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

We live and work in Charlotte, NC. The company is based here and will stay here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Charlotte offers the manufacturing space and industrial customer base we need. It's cheaper and practical for what we build compared to traditional tech hubs.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Lucid Bots YC application?

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