Terranox AI YC Application

Winter 2026Active

Terranox AI went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2026
Industry: IndustrialsEnergy
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Jade CheclairFounder
Leeav LiptonFounder

What Terranox AI does

Terranox is the first vertically integrated AI-powered uranium exploration company. We find high-grade uranium deposits in North America using AI trained on 70+ years of exploration outcomes. Our mission is to find the fuel we need to power the next century with nuclear energy.

Terranox AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Terranox AI, Winter 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Terranox AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-powered uranium discovery company

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

We build an AI system trained on over 70 years of uranium exploration data to identify high-grade uranium deposits in North America. Our product automates and improves the accuracy of uranium exploration by integrating domain knowledge and historical outcomes, giving us an edge in a traditionally manual and expensive industry.

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

We currently live and work in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco gives us access to technical talent and proximity to investors. It also allows us to connect to data science and AI communities critical for building our product.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Terranox AI YC application?

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