Spaceium Inc YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Spaceium Inc went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2024 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 2024
Industry: IndustrialsAviation and Space
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Ashi DissanayakeFounder
Reza FetanatFounder

What Spaceium Inc does

Spaceium builds fully automated space stations to refuel and repair spacecraft. We have secured $86.1 million in binding commercial contracts and have an additional $230 million in the pipeline. Additionally, we have 1 billion dollars in letters of intent. We have successfully tested our hardware, which will launch to space next year. Our fully automated space stations will efficiently store and transfer both cryogenic (extremely cold) and non-cryogenic fuels with zero loss during storage and transfer. And they can transfer fuel seamlessly to any spacecraft design using our proprietary modular robotic arm. Our customers include launch vehicles, orbital transfer vehicles, moon landers, and spacecraft that benefit from increased payload capacity and extended travel capabilities. Our long-term vision is to build service hubs along the space superhighway to connect Earth to Moon and Mars and help humanity to become multi multi-planetary species

Spaceium Inc's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Spaceium Inc, Summer 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Spaceium Inc

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

In-space refueling stations

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

We build fully automated space stations that store and transfer cryogenic and non-cryogenic fuels to spacecraft. Our stations use a robotic arm to refuel various spacecraft designs with zero loss, allowing vehicles to carry more payload and travel farther.

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

n/a

Explain your decision regarding location.

We don't list a base location because our product operates in orbit. Our team is focused on developing space hardware and commercial contracts, which don't depend on a single physical office location right now.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Spaceium Inc YC application?

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