Paces YC Application

Summer 2022Active

Paces went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2022 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 2022
Industry: IndustrialsClimate
Team size: 40
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

James McWalterFounder
Charles BaiFounder

What Paces does

Energy demand is skyrocketing, and renewable energy is the most scalable path forward. But today’s development process can’t move fast enough to meet global goals. Paces exists to change that. We are building AI agents, software and services to accelerate power and data center deployment and lower costs - unlocking one of the greatest opportunities of our time: transforming how infrastructure gets built and ensuring it’s built with renewable energy. Paces automates early-stage due diligence and provides the expertise to accelerate late-stage diligence, fast-tracking projects from siting to construction-ready. Our platform supports renewable energy and data center developers, real estate firms, and more by streamlining siting, interconnection, and permitting. With Paces, teams can de-risk decisions, shorten timelines, and get more renewable energy projects built.

Paces's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Paces, Summer 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Paces

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Agentic AI for Power Projects and AI Infrastructure

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

We build AI agents and software to automate and speed up early-stage and late-stage due diligence for renewable energy and data center projects. Our platform helps developers and real estate firms move projects from siting through permitting and interconnection faster and cheaper.

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

We live in New York City and the company is based here now and would remain so after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose New York because it's where we live and where many of our users - renewable energy developers, real estate firms, and project teams - are located or have operations.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

See full application

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Paces YC application?

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