Theseus YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Theseus 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: IndustrialsDrones
Team size: 7
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Ian LaffeyFounder
Sacha LévyFounder

What Theseus does

Theseus builds visual navigation software for GPS-denied drone operations. Using onboard cameras, inertial sensors, and satellite reference imagery, our system computes position fixes entirely passively. The system is entirely self contained, can't be jammed and has no RF signature.

Theseus's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Theseus

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

GPS Denied Navigation for Drones

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

We build visual navigation software enabling drones to operate without GPS. Our system uses onboard cameras, inertial sensors, and satellite reference imagery to compute position completely passively, making the drone invisible to RF detection and resistant to jamming.

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 is where our team is located and where the core drone and robotics community is. Keeping the company here gives us access to key partners and talent.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Theseus YC application?

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