Candidature YC de Boom

Winter 2016Active

Boom a été sélectionné par Y Combinator dans le cadre du batch Winter 2016 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 2016
Secteur d'activité: IndustrialsAviation and Space
Taille de l'équipe: 227
Statut: Active
Lancé: 2015

Fondateurs

Blake SchollFounder/CEO

Ce que fait 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.

Candidature YC de Boom, reconstruite

Candidature Y Combinator

Boom, promotion Winter 2016. Les vraies questions de candidature, répondues à partir de données publiques.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
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Batch Preference1

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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Questions fréquemment posées

Est-ce la vraie candidature YC de Boom ?

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 Boom (notes de lancement, parcours des fondateurs, description du produit). Cela montre comment une entreprise comme Boom se présenterait à YC, pas le texte qu'ils ont soumis.

À quel batch YC Boom appartenait-il ?

Boom faisait partie du batch Winter 2016 de Y Combinator.

Qui a fondé Boom ?

Boom a été fondé par Blake Scholl.

Que fait Boom ?

Economically and environmentally sustainable supersonic travel

Comment lire la candidature complète reconstruite ?

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