Zeitview YC Application

Winter 2015Active

Zeitview went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2015
Industry: IndustrialsDrones
Team size: 200
Status: Active
Launched: 2014

Founders

Dan BurtonFounder

What Zeitview does

At Zeitview, our goal is to accelerate the transition to renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure. We do this by combining advanced inspection software with the ability to capture visual data in more than 60 countries. This allows us to deliver safer, faster, lower-cost inspections of energy and infrastructure assets with a high degree of accuracy and repeatability. We use artificial intelligence and machine learning to ingest and analyze vast amounts of visual data to provide objective insights that our customers can act on immediately.

Zeitview's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Zeitview, Winter 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Zeitview

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Inspection software for renewable energy & sustainable infrastructure

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

We build inspection software that uses drones and AI to collect and analyze visual data for renewable energy assets like solar and wind farms. Our platform provides accurate, repeatable inspections faster and cheaper than traditional methods, giving customers actionable insights to maintain infrastructure safely and efficiently.

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

We are based in Santa Monica, CA, with much of the team working remotely. After YC, we will remain primarily in Santa Monica while continuing to support a distributed workforce.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Santa Monica is our base due to the founders' location and proximity to key renewable energy markets on the West Coast. Maintaining a remote team helps us tap talent worldwide and operate in over 60 countries.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Zeitview YC application?

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