Beyond Reach Labs

Candidature YC de Beyond Reach Labs

Winter 2026Active

Beyond Reach Labs a été sélectionné par Y Combinator dans le cadre du batch Winter 2026 en tant qu'entreprise Industrials. Ci-dessous : ce que fait l'entreprise, qui l'a fondée, et sa candidature à YC, reconstruite question par question dans le vrai formulaire YC.

Batch YC
Winter 2026
Secteur d'activité
IndustrialsAviation and Space
Taille de l'équipe
5
Statut
Active
Lancé
2026

Fondateurs

  • Mitchell Fogelson
    Mitchell FogelsonFounder | CEO
  • Pele Collins
    Pele CollinsFounder | CTO

Ce que fait Beyond Reach Labs

At Beyond Reach Labs we are building solar panels for Space that grow from the size of a dining table to a football field in orbit. Mitch and Pele met 13 years ago as freshmen at UPenn studying mechanical engineering. Mitch recently got his PhD at Carnegie Mellon working with NASA on kilometer-scale deployable structures, and Pele spent seven years at SpaceX leading Dragon parachute engineering, safely returning astronauts from space. The collective satellites today use around 20MW, roughly the output of a datacenter on earth, but by 2030 there is a demand for over 10GW, a 500x increase, largely driven by orbital datacenters, space stations, and lunar outposts. If you want more power, your only option is to launch larger solar panels, which quickly become fragile or impractically expensive. As a result, power constraints already determine whether missions or industries can exist at all. But at Beyond Reach Labs we have introduced a new class of deployable solar panels giving satellites 10x more usable power without increasing launch mass or volume. This works because our patented deployable design changes geometry in space, allowing for us to reach 10x longer while remaining rigid.

Candidature YC de Beyond Reach Labs, reconstruite

Candidature Y Combinator

Beyond Reach Labs, promotion Winter 2026. Les vraies questions de candidature, répondues à partir de données publiques.

  1. Founders2
  2. Company7
  3. Progress7
  4. Idea4
  5. Equity3
  6. Curious2
  7. Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Beyond Reach Labs

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Space solar arrays that grow in orbit

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

We build solar panels designed specifically for space. Our panels launch about the size of a dining table but deploy in orbit to the size of a football field. The design lets us reach 10x longer solar arrays while keeping mass and launch volume low. This gives satellites much more power without the fragility and cost problems of today's large panels.

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

We live in New York, NY, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose New York because the team is here. Founders Mitch and Pele have strong personal and professional ties here, which makes recruiting and operations practical.

21 réponses supplémentaires dans la candidature complète

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Questions fréquemment posées

Est-ce la vraie candidature YC de Beyond Reach Labs ?

Non. Y Combinator garde les candidatures soumises privées. Ceci est une reconstruction : les vraies questions du formulaire YC, répondues à partir des données publiques de Beyond Reach Labs (notes de lancement, parcours des fondateurs, description du produit). Cela montre comment une entreprise comme Beyond Reach Labs se présenterait à YC, pas le texte qu'ils ont soumis.

À quel batch YC Beyond Reach Labs appartenait-il ?

Beyond Reach Labs faisait partie du batch Winter 2026 de Y Combinator.

Qui a fondé Beyond Reach Labs ?

Beyond Reach Labs a été fondé par Mitchell Fogelson, Pele Collins.

Que fait Beyond Reach Labs ?

Space solar arrays that grow to the size of a football field in orbit

Comment lire la candidature complète reconstruite ?

Créez un compte Round Funded gratuit. La version complète de la candidature de Beyond Reach Labs en 26 réponses, et de chaque autre promotion YC, se trouve dans YC Insights.

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