Vorticity YC Application

Summer 2019Active

Vorticity went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2019 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 2019
Industry: IndustrialsManufacturing and Robotics
Team size: 10
Status: Active
Launched: 2019

Founders

Chirath NeranjenaFounder

What Vorticity does

Many pressing problems facing humanity can be solved with faster scientific compute. Currently, it takes billions of dollars to design and develop a new fusion reactor, a hyper-sonic airplane or a new cancer treatment. This is because scientists and engineers have to build very expensive things before they even know if their ideas work. But what if we can simulate the workings of these ideas (and more) on computers first and have high confidence that it works before we build really expensive things? The work of humanity's greatest scientists over the years has given us the physics and math to do this. The problem is that we simply do not have the computing power to solve these big problems. To address this, the Vorticity Inc is re-imagining scientific computing all the way down to processor architecture and system design. Our proven technology is already helping the energy, life sciences and aerospace industries.

Vorticity's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Vorticity, Summer 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Vorticity

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Fastest scientific computing platform

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

We build a scientific computing platform redesigned from the ground up, including custom processor architecture and system design, to drastically speed up simulations that researchers and engineers in energy, aerospace, and life sciences rely on. Our platform lets them run large, complex simulations much faster, reducing the time and cost needed to test new designs before physical prototypes.

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

We are based in Redwood City, CA and the company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Redwood City places us near key customers in energy and aerospace and close to engineering talent familiar with high-performance computing. Staying here keeps us connected to the right ecosystem for building our specialized platform.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Vorticity YC application?

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