Nori YC Application

Summer 2026Active

San Francisco

Nori 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: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Antonio Sitong LiFounder/CTO

What Nori does

We manufacture Nori: A sub-$2000 bimanual mobile manipulator that can clean rooms, restock shelves, and fold clothes. Nori can handle basic tasks out of the box, and its software lets anyone teach Nori to automate work specific to their home or business. Nori aims to solve the robotics data bottleneck. By deploying affordable robots to customers around the world, we can gather the diverse data required to train the next generation of generalist robotic policies. Every user of Nori makes Nori smarter. Since launching 6 weeks ago we have already deployed our first robot and have over $440k+ in sales. We can bring general-purpose robotics to homes and businesses that could never afford it before. There are 132.7 million households and 8.4 million employer business locations in the U.S. At $1,688 per robot, selling just one Nori to 0.5% of them represents a $1.2B market opportunity in the U.S. alone.

Nori's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Nori, Summer 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Nori

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Humanoid robots for $1,688, made in the USA.

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

We build Nori, a bimanual mobile manipulator robot that can clean rooms, restock shelves, and fold clothes for under $2,000. Nori works out of the box on core tasks, but can also be taught new tasks through software. We're focused on making general-purpose robotics affordable and useful for homes and businesses.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA. The company will stay based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is the best place for robotics talent, early adopters, and hardware resources. Our existing team and user base are already here.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Nori YC application?

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