1849 bio YC Başvurusu

Summer 2024Active

1849 bio, Industrials şirketi olarak Summer 2024 grubunda Y Combinator'dan geçti. Aşağıda: şirketin ne yaptığı, kimin kurduğu ve gerçek YC formunda yeniden yapılandırılmış YC başvurusu.

YC grubu: Summer 2024
Sektör: Industrials
Ekip büyüklüğü: 3
Durum: Active
Lansmanı Yapıldı: 2024

Kurucular

Jai PadmakumarFounder
Yongjin ParkFounder

1849 bio ne yapar

1849 bio designs microbes enabling cheap metal extraction allowing miners to unlock value from low quality copper and gold ores. Surprisingly, the mining industry is one of the largest scale users of biotech in the world with biomining processes accounting for ~1% of global copper production. Biomining is ultra-low cost, running around ~$1/ton of ore vs ~$7/ton for conventional processes. Unfortunately, while biomining is cheap, it can’t be applied to over 80% of copper ores, leaving vast resources without profitable extraction methods. An estimated ~$800B of copper sit today in waste materials and stockpiles with negative unit economics. While a great deal of effort has been spent on optimizing microbial metal extraction processes, very little effort has been spent on optimizing the microbes themselves. To change that, we’re creating new biotech tools and platforms applied directly to the types of biology most relevant to miners. This enables us to develop new microbes and tackle some of the most difficult problems in biomining, unlocking billions in value from unprofitable resources while being more environmentally friendly than conventional processes. We’re world class microbial engineers. We met while doing our PhDs in synthetic biology, where we spent our time applying and developing the most advanced bioengineering technologies to engineer living cells.

1849 bio'in YC başvurusu, yeniden yapılandırılmış

Y Combinator başvurusu

1849 bio, Summer 2024 dönemi. Gerçek form soruları, herkese açık verilerden yanıtlandı.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

1849 bio

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Engineering microbes for miners to unlock billions in trapped metal

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

We engineer microbes specifically for mining companies to extract metal from low-grade ores and waste that conventional biomining can't handle. Our biotech platform creates new strains optimized to unlock value from unprofitable copper and gold resources at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods.

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

We live in San Francisco, and the company will be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team lives and works. It also has biotech infrastructure and access to engineering talent we need to develop our synthetic biology platform.

Tam başvuruda 21 ek cevap

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference tam sürümde. YC Insights'ta, diğer her YC grubu yanında açmak için ücretsiz bir hesap oluşturun.

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Bu, 1849 bio şirketinin gerçek YC başvurusu mu?

Hayır. Y Combinator gönderilen başvuruları gizli tutar. Bu bir yeniden yapılandırmadır: gerçek YC form soruları, 1849 bio'in kamuya açık verilerinden (lansman notları, kurucu geçmişleri, ürün açıklaması) yanıtlanmıştır. 1849 bio gibi bir şirketin YC'ye kendisini nasıl sunacağını gösterir, gönderdikleri metni değil.