Sinovia Technologies YC Application

Winter 2017Active

Sinovia Technologies went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2017 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: Winter 2017
Industry: IndustrialsManufacturing and Robotics
Team size: 7
Status: Active
Launched: 2016

Founders

George BurkhardFounder/CTO

What Sinovia Technologies does

We use the printing methods used for newspapers, packaging, posters, and other graphic media to make beautiful, emissive electronic displays with high-end OLED technology aimed at low-cost applications. Our displays are paper-thin, flexible, and can be easily custom printed in a variety of shapes and sizes, allowing hardware designers to use displays and indicators on curved surfaces and in new ways.

Sinovia Technologies's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Sinovia Technologies, Winter 2017 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Sinovia Technologies

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Flexible printed OLED displays

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

We make paper-thin, flexible OLED displays using printing methods from newspapers and packaging. Our displays emit light and can be custom-printed in different shapes and sizes, enabling new design possibilities for hardware makers who want displays on curved or irregular surfaces.

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

We are based in San Carlos, CA and plan to stay here after YC. This area has the right mix of manufacturing partners and talent for printed electronics.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Carlos is where we built our initial prototypes and have access to key partners in manufacturing and hardware design. Moving elsewhere would slow us down without clear benefit.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Sinovia Technologies YC application?

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