SuperRadiant YC Application

Fall 2026Active

San Francisco

SuperRadiant went through Y Combinator in the Fall 2026 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: Fall 2026
Industry: IndustrialsManufacturing and Robotics
Location: San Francisco
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Owen TowerFounder/CEO
Cooper NiuFounder/CTO
Benedict QuarteyFounder

What SuperRadiant does

Every instance of intelligence occurring in nature is embodied. Scientific intelligence is no different. We are building general-purpose robotic experimentalists: systems that unite scientific reasoning and physical action to iterate toward discovery by observing, hypothesizing and experimenting.

SuperRadiant's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

SuperRadiant, Fall 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

SuperRadiant

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

General-purpose robotic scientific experimentalists

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

We are building embodied AI systems that act as general-purpose robotic experimentalists. SuperRadiant's product brings scientific reasoning into robotics, allowing it to observe, hypothesize, and physically perform experiments to discover new insights. Our focus is on creating systems that can autonomously iterate through the scientific process in real-world environments. This combines robotics, AI, and automation for scientific discovery.

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

We are based in San Francisco, CA, and the company will remain here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is the center of robotics, AI, and biotech activity, with the right talent pool and access to early adopters in advanced manufacturing and research.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real SuperRadiant YC application?

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