Orbio Earth YC Application

Summer 2023Active

Orbio Earth went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 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 2023
Industry: B2BAnalytics
Team size: 6
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Robert HuppertzFounder
Jack AngelaFounder

What Orbio Earth does

Orbio uses satellite imagery to track methane emissions from the oil & gas industry. We sell the data to financial companies that want to invest into the best performing energy companies. Until today, oil & gas companies use excel-based emission factors to calculate and report their emissions. As these excel-based emission factors underestimate actual emissions by ~70%, the finance companies that invest into oil & gas can’t mitigate against incoming risks from new regulations, We have built a technology that can for the first time use satellite images to track methane from every single oil & gas facility on the planet, replacing emission factors and allowing finance companies to make the best bets on oil & gas companies that will withstand a wide avalanche of incoming regulation. In the summer 2023 our satellite-based technology got ranked #1 both in terms of accuracy and sensitivity of methane emission events by Stanford University in a peer-reviewed study, beating a range of multi-bn dollar competitors like Maxar. Learn more at

Orbio Earth's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Orbio Earth, Summer 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Orbio Earth

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Tracking methane emissions with satellites

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

We built a platform that uses satellite imagery and AI to detect methane emissions from every oil and gas site on the planet. Our data replaces outdated excel-based emission factors with precise, real-time measurements. Finance companies use our analytics to choose investments in energy companies likely to stay compliant with tightening regulations.

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

We all work remotely and plan to remain remote after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Remote work lets us hire talent globally and focus on building the data product without geographic constraints.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Orbio Earth YC application?

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