Moving Atoms YC Application
San Francisco
Moving Atoms went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2026 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 2026
- Industry
- IndustrialsManufacturing and Robotics
- Location
- San Francisco
- Team size
- 2
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2026
Founders
Shehryar SaroyaFounder/CEO
Ahmad SaroyaFounder
What Moving Atoms does
Our first model, Atom 1, pre-trained on the internets video, and fine tuned for physics. It has been action conditioned, so you can simulate robot actions within it. This lets Robot Labs train their robots using GPUs instead of relying on human collected manual data that is slow and expensive. In unseen and hard to replicate environments, this is the only path to getting ANY training data.
Moving Atoms's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Moving Atoms, Summer 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Moving Atoms
World Models (VR) for training robots
We are building Atom 1, a virtual world model trained on internet video and fine-tuned for physics. It is action-conditioned, letting robotics teams simulate robot actions and generate synthetic data for training. This means labs can train robots using GPUs, not slow and expensive manual real-world data collection. Our users are robotics researchers and engineers who need data in environments that are hard to capture physically.
We are based in San Francisco, CA, and would stay based there after YC.
San Francisco is where the robotics and AI ecosystems are strongest, and it's where our small team works together. It also puts us close to early users.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Moving Atoms YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Moving Atoms's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Moving Atoms would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Moving Atoms in?
Moving Atoms was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2026 batch.
Who founded Moving Atoms?
Moving Atoms was founded by Shehryar Saroya, Ahmad Saroya.
What does Moving Atoms do?
World Models (Virtual Reality) for training robots
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
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