Inscrição YC de Skyscrape

Summer 2017Active

Skyscrape passou pela Y Combinator no batch Summer 2017 como uma empresa Industrials. Abaixo: o que a empresa faz, quem a fundou e sua inscrição para a YC, reconstruída pergunta por pergunta no formulário real da YC.

Batch YC: Summer 2017
Indústria: IndustrialsManufacturing and Robotics
Tamanho da equipe: 3
Status: Active
Lançada: 2017

Fundadores

Brent RidleyFounder

O que Skyscrape faz

Skyscrape makes temperature responsive fabrics for a new type of clothing. These fabrics literally change shape in response to a change in temperature: the fabrics become thicker and insulate more as the temperature drops, and they become thinner and insulate less as the temperature rises again. This "intelligent insulation" has no wires or sensors, and the fabric's shape-changing behavior comes from a natural materials response. Skyscrape’s fabrics offer expanded thermal comfort across a wider temperature range than conventional clothing. Creating textiles that could change shape with changing temperatures required years of laboratory work by an interdisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, designers, and weavers, designing and refining machines and processes to make yarns and fabrics that could adapt to the environment. Skyscrape's first market entry was with Ralph Lauren in the 2022 Team USA Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony.

Inscrição YC de Skyscrape, reconstruída

Inscrição Y Combinator

Skyscrape, lote Summer 2017. As verdadeiras perguntas do formulário, respondidas com dados públicos.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Skyscrape

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Temperature-responsive insulation fabric

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

We make fabrics that change thickness and insulation based on temperature. As it gets colder, the fabric thickens to keep you warm; as it warms, it thins to keep you comfortable. This happens naturally in the material itself, without sensors or wires.

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

We live in Portland, OR, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Portland has the manufacturing and textile expertise we rely on. It's where our founders live and where we can best develop and produce our fabrics.

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Perguntas Frequentes

Esta é a inscrição real da YC de Skyscrape?

Não. A Y Combinator mantém as inscrições submetidas em privado. Esta é uma reconstrução: as perguntas reais do formulário da YC, respondidas a partir dos dados públicos de Skyscrape (notas de lançamento, históricos de fundadores, descrição do produto). Mostra como uma empresa como Skyscrape se apresentaria à YC, não o texto que eles submeteram.

Em qual batch da YC Skyscrape esteve?

Skyscrape fez parte do batch Summer 2017 da Y Combinator.

Quem fundou o Skyscrape?

O Skyscrape foi fundado por Brent Ridley.

O que o Skyscrape faz?

Skyscrape makes temperature-responsive insulation

Como eu leio o application completo reconstruído?

Crie uma conta gratuita no Round Funded. A versão completa de 26 respostas do application do Skyscrape, e de todos os outros lotes do YC, está no YC Insights.