SmartHelio YC Application

Winter 2022Active

SmartHelio went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 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: Winter 2022
Industry: B2BAnalytics
Team size: 25
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Govinda UpadhyayFounder
Neeraj DasilaFounder

What SmartHelio does

SmartHelio provides a software that helps solar utilities automatically predict and prevent downtime disruptions. We help solar utilities to generate extra $200k per plant income on $10k spent using our software, by preventing 700 faults per year. We have a platform which reads live data (current, voltage, weather parameters) from a solar plant, runs algorithms to decouple various factors for the underperformance and provides recommendations to fix it. This data is 100% available for the large scale solar in the world just using software (e.g. APIs). Product launch: Our cloud software is being used by 40+ leading solar developers in Europe and Asia. We have analyzed 25+ billion of data points from over 3 GW of solar assets spread across the globe in the last 2 years.

SmartHelio's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

SmartHelio, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

SmartHelio

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Software to prevent downtime in a solar plant

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

We build Cloud software that connects to solar plant data sources like current, voltage, and weather. Our algorithms analyze underperformance, separate causes, and provide actionable recommendations to prevent downtime and faults. Our users are solar utilities and developers who rely on our platform to keep their plants running efficiently.

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

We live in Lausanne, VD, Switzerland, and plan to keep the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Switzerland has a strong clean energy sector and we are well connected to solar developers in Europe and Asia. Being based here helps us stay close to our key customers and domain expertise.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real SmartHelio YC application?

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