Macadamia YC Application

Winter 2025Active

Macadamia went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2025 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: Winter 2025
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Abel Van SteenweghenFounder, CEO
Brecht PierreuxFounder

What Macadamia does

Macadamia builds AI agents for complex engineering projects. They automate both engineering & business processes, to automate away all low-leverage work. It integrates with all engineering data sources, technical documentation, and third-party software tools. Macadamia serves customers in mechanical engineering, manufacturing, and construction.

Macadamia's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Macadamia, Winter 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Macadamia

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI Agents for Complex Engineering Projects

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

We build AI agents that automate engineering and business processes in complex projects. Our product integrates with existing engineering data, technical docs, and third-party tools to reduce low-value work for teams in mechanical engineering, manufacturing, and construction.

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

We have not publicly disclosed our locations yet and currently operate remotely. After YC, we plan to be based wherever is best to grow and support our customers.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We want to stay flexible to follow our customers and hiring needs. Location is secondary to getting the product right and onboarding new users effectively.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Macadamia YC application?

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