Polymath Robotics YC Application

Summer 2022Active

Polymath Robotics 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: IndustrialsManufacturing and Robotics
Team size: 13
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Stefan Seltz-AxmacherFounder
Ilia BaranovCo-Founder & CTO

What Polymath Robotics does

Polymath is building a general autonomy stack for cautious vehicles. Our software allows any industrial vehicle - whether it's a tractor in a field or a bulldozer in a mine, drive itself. We bundle together AI, ML, Controls, ROS, Safety and best-in-class deployment practices to enable our customers to tell automated vehicles to do via a REST API. We're on more robots than we have engineers, are seeing our revenue (and robotic fleet) grow rapidly, and are looking for folks who want to help automate the world.

Polymath Robotics's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Polymath Robotics

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

General Autonomy for Industrial Vehicles

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

We build a software stack that enables any industrial vehicle - like tractors or bulldozers - to drive itself. Our product combines AI, machine learning, controls, ROS, and safety to let customers automate these vehicles through a simple REST API.

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

We're based in San Francisco, and the company would remain here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team lives and where we have access to robotics talent and industrial partners. It's also the best place to recruit engineers skilled in AI and robotics software.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Polymath Robotics YC application?

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