MorphoAI YC Application

Spring 2025Active

MorphoAI went through Y Combinator in the Spring 2025 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: Spring 2025
Industry: IndustrialsManufacturing and Robotics
Team size: 7
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Ayna AroraFounder + CEO
Andrew SpielbergFounder

What MorphoAI does

We're building an AI powered platform for engineers that are building new robots and machines. We allow users to invent and modify machine designs in a matter of minutes, not years. Ayna and Andy, the co-founders, met during their time at Harvard and started this in 2024 as their programs were wrapping up. We're commercializing 10+ years research done by our team at Harvard and MIT on this space. Our team wrote the very first papers on applying GenAI and optimization algorithms to compose robots from parts and applying computational design to fine tune machine designs. We're bringing in our deep knowledge of modifying equipment and integrating it into factories keenly understanding what makes hardware hard. We take in parts under consideration, constraints and tasks at hand and our algorithm formulates and fine tunes from 100s of possible design options. All in a few clicks, so engineers can push hardware to market faster and companies can benefit from the inventions being done by their R&D teams. We already have two paying customers in the OEM and system integrator spaces. We are venture backed and supported by a GBP 2.5MM grant by ARIA, the UK Government's invention agency.

MorphoAI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

MorphoAI, Spring 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

MorphoAI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Software tool for designing robots and machines

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

We're building an AI platform that lets engineers design and modify robots and machines in minutes instead of years. Our software takes in proposed parts, constraints, and intended tasks, then generates and fine tunes hundreds of design options automatically. It helps get hardware from concept to factory faster by removing manual trial and error in robot design.

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

We live and work in New York, NY, and the company will remain based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We've built our company around a deep research base in robot design from Harvard and MIT, where we met, and we have early customers and grants rooted in our New York ecosystem. Staying here keeps our team intact and connected to our initial customers.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real MorphoAI YC application?

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