Wardstone YC Application

Fall 2025Active

Wardstone went through Y Combinator in the Fall 2025 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 2025
Industry: IndustrialsAviation and Space
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Sebastian FischerFounder and CEO
Tobias FischerFounder

What Wardstone does

Wardstone is a space defense-tech company developing next-generation capabilities to protect the United States and its allies from missiles and other space-based threats. We design, build, and deploy satellites equipped with space-based interceptors to kinetically counter hypersonic and ballistic missiles.

Wardstone's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Wardstone, Fall 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Wardstone

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Satellites for Missile Defense

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

We build and deploy satellites equipped with space-based interceptors designed to kinetically intercept hypersonic and ballistic missiles. Our product detects, tracks, and destroys missile threats from orbit, providing missile defense capabilities to the U.S. and its allies.

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

We live and operate in El Segundo, California, and plan to base the company there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

El Segundo is a hub for aerospace and defense companies, giving us access to talent, suppliers, and customers. Staying local keeps us close to key partners and government agencies.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Wardstone YC application?

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