Steinmetz YC Application

Winter 2025Active

Steinmetz went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2025 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 2025
Industry: Industrials
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Owen BrakeFounder
Ethan ChilderhoseFounder

What Steinmetz does

Steinmetz is building the next generation of American power electronics. The next generation of great machines - electric vehicles, robotics, aerospace, and industrial systems - depends on power electronics that are lighter, cheaper, more efficient, and built at real scale. We push the Pareto frontier of power electronics through multi-disciplinary design. We're the OEM that customers actually appreciate.

Steinmetz's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Steinmetz, Winter 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Steinmetz

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Next-Generation Power Electronics

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

We build power electronics that are lighter, cheaper, and more efficient for electric vehicles, robotics, aerospace, and industrial systems. Our product replaces legacy power electronics modules with designs customers appreciate and that can be made at scale in the U.S.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to base the company here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the talent and industry connections we need to build complex power electronics and scale manufacturing. Being here keeps us close to key customers and partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Steinmetz YC application?

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