Mach9 YC Application

Summer 2021Active

Mach9 went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2021 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 2021
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 25
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Alexander BaikovitzFounder
Haowen ShiFounder

What Mach9 does

Mach9 accelerates how teams model and understand the world with automated feature extraction technology. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, Mach9's flagship Digital Surveyor platform helps transportation agencies, utility companies, and engineering firms extract miles of road corridor projects in a fraction of traditional processing time. Built on decades of research from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, Mach9 empowers the architecture, engineering, and construction industries to tackle large-scale infrastructure projects with unprecedented speed and accuracy. Leading survey and geospatial organizations, including Langan, Olsson, Woolpert, HDR, and major state DOTs trust Digital Surveyor to create engineering-grade maps for infrastructure design and operations.

Mach9's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Mach9, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Mach9

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-native CAD software for civil engineering

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

We make Digital Surveyor, software that automates extracting features like roads and utilities from survey data for infrastructure projects. It cuts processing time drastically and produces engineering-grade models for transportation agencies and engineering firms.

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

We are based in San Francisco, CA, and the company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco puts us near top AI talent, key customers, and a strong tech ecosystem essential for recruiting and business development.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Mach9 YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Mach9's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Mach9 would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.