Stillwind YC Application
Stillwind went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2025 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 2025
- Industry
- B2BEngineering, Product and Design
- Team size
- 4
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2025
Founders
Linus MeierhöferFounder
Lukas EgoFounder
Hannes FurmansFounder
Josef ZollerFounder
What Stillwind does
Our first product, Stillwind Search, makes finding an electronic part as easy as writing a text message. The search engine turns natural language queries into fine-grained specifications that are matched against our proprietary database of millions of parts. This is the first step towards autonomous electrical engineering.
Stillwind's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Stillwind, Winter 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Stillwind
Autonomous Electrical Engineering
We are building Stillwind Search, a search engine that lets engineers find electronic parts using natural language queries. Instead of browsing specs manually, users write something as simple as a text message. Our system translates that into detailed part specifications and matches them against a proprietary database of millions of components. This is the first step toward fully autonomous electrical engineering.
We live and work in Zürich, Switzerland, and plan to base the company here after YC as well.
We are based in Zürich because this is where all four founders live and where we have good access to local engineering talent and electronic hardware companies. Moving the company would slow us down early on.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Stillwind YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Stillwind's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Stillwind would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Stillwind in?
Stillwind was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2025 batch.
Who founded Stillwind?
Stillwind was founded by Linus Meierhöfer, Lukas Ego, Hannes Furmans, Josef Zoller.
What does Stillwind do?
Autonomous Electrical Engineering
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
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