Thrive Agritech YC Application

Summer 2015Active

Thrive Agritech went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2015 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 2015
Industry: IndustrialsAgriculture
Team size: 8
Status: Active
Launched: 2015

Founders

Brian BennettFounder/CEO

What Thrive Agritech does

Thrive Agritech designs and manufactures advanced lighting fixtures for indoor agriculture. We have a patent pending LED lighting system that precisely targets various photosynthetic spectrums. Many thousands of our LED lighting fixtures have been installed in some of the world's leading indoor farms. Our products are saving millions of watt-hours of energy every day in vertical farms, greenhouses and cannabis production facilities. Agritech expands beyond lighting and so do we. Our R&D team is actively involved in creating advanced sensor and communications networks to work with both human and artificial intelligence to create the optimized farm of the future.

Thrive Agritech's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Thrive Agritech, Summer 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Thrive Agritech

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Energy efficient LED lights for indoor farming

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

We design and manufacture LED lighting fixtures that precisely target photosynthetic spectrums most efficient for plants. Our lights are used in vertical farms, greenhouses, and cannabis grow operations to reduce energy waste and increase crop yields.

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

Our team is distributed between Seattle, New York, and remote locations. After YC, we intend to keep Seattle as our primary base.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Seattle has the engineering talent and proximity to major growers for customer feedback. Our existing offices and manufacturing partners are already there, making it the natural hub to grow from.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Thrive Agritech YC application?

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