Aplicación YC de Boom

Winter 2016Active

Boom pasó por Y Combinator en el batch Winter 2016 como una empresa de Industrials. Abajo: qué hace la empresa, quién la fundó y su aplicación a YC, reconstruida pregunta por pregunta en el formulario real de YC.

Batch YC: Winter 2016
Industria: IndustrialsAviation and Space
Tamaño del equipo: 227
Estado: Active
Lanzado: 2015

Fundadores

Blake SchollFounder/CEO

Lo que hace Boom

Boom Supersonic is transforming air travel with Overture, the world’s fastest airliner, optimized for speed, safety, and sustainability. Serving both civil and government markets, Overture will fly at twice the speed of today’s airliners and is designed to run on 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Symphony™, a Boom-led collaboration with industry leaders, is the propulsion system that will power Overture. Overture’s order book, including purchases and options from American Airlines, United Airlines, and Japan Airlines stands at 130 aircraft. Boom is working with Northrop Grumman for government and defense applications of Overture. Suppliers and partners collaborating with Boom on the Overture program include Collins Aerospace, Eaton, Florida Turbine Technologies (FTT), a business unit of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc., GE Additive, Safran Landing Systems, StandardAero and the United States Air Force. For more information, visit Boom’s world-class engineering team comes from places including SpaceX, Boeing, Gulfstream, Virgin Galactic, Scaled Composites, NASA, and Bombardier. We have uniquely challenging and world-changing opportunities for the most talented aerospace engineers, designers, and business people.

Aplicación YC de Boom, reconstruida

Solicitud de Y Combinator

Boom, batch Winter 2016. Las preguntas reales del formulario, respondidas con datos públicos.

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Company

Company name

Boom

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Economically and environmentally sustainable supersonic travel

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

We are building Overture, a supersonic airliner that will fly twice as fast as current commercial planes. It's designed to run on 100% sustainable aviation fuel and to serve both civil and government markets. Symphony™, our propulsion system developed alongside industry partners, will power Overture. We focus on solving the challenge of eco-friendly, commercially viable supersonic flight.

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

We are based in Centennial and Englewood, Colorado, and would remain here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Our location in Colorado gives us access to aerospace talent from numerous leading companies and close collaboration with our partners such as Collins Aerospace and Northrop Grumman. It supports our work building a complex aerospace product.

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Preguntas Frecuentes

¿Es esta la aplicación YC real de Boom?

No. Y Combinator mantiene privadas las aplicaciones enviadas. Esta es una reconstrucción: las preguntas reales del formulario de YC, respondidas a partir de los datos públicos de Boom (notas de lanzamiento, antecedentes de fundadores, descripción del producto). Muestra cómo una empresa como Boom se presentaría a YC, no el texto que enviaron.

¿En qué batch de YC estuvo Boom?

Boom formó parte del batch Winter 2016 de Y Combinator.

¿Quién fundó Boom?

Boom fue fundado por Blake Scholl.

¿A qué se dedica Boom?

Economically and environmentally sustainable supersonic travel

¿Cómo leo la aplicación completa reconstruida?

Crea una cuenta gratuita de Round Funded. La versión completa de 26 respuestas de la aplicación de Boom, y de cada otro batch de YC, está en YC Insights.