Home › YC Companies › Industrials › Arc › Alternatives Arc alternatives TL;DR: The closest YC-backed alternatives to <strong>Arc</strong> are other Y Combinator Industrials companies, especially from the Summer 2012 batch. Below are 20 ranked competitors with batch, status, and team size.
Y Combinator-backed Industrials companies similar to Arc (YC Summer 2012).
Last verified: 2026-04-21
Cruise YC Winter 2014 · Acquired · 3000 people — Self-driving cars.
Astranis YC Winter 2016 · Active · 500 people — Advanced satellites for high orbits.
Embark Trucks YC Winter 2016 · Public · 300 people — Self-driving semi trucks.
Relativity Space YC Winter 2016 · Active · 2500 people — Building humanity’s multiplanetary future.
Tractian YC Winter 2021 · Active · 530 people — Physical AI for asset-heavy industries
Oolu YC Summer 2015 · Acquired · 230 people — Oolu is one of the fastest growing off-grid solar firms in West Africa
Moxion Power Co. YC Winter 2021 · Inactive · 380 people — Mobile Energy Storage Technology
Momentus YC Summer 2018 · Public · 125 people — The space infrastructure services company
Stoke Space YC Winter 2021 · Active · 305 people — Seamless mobility to, through, and from space. It starts with 100%…
May Mobility YC Summer 2017 · Active · 260 people — Transforming cities and rural areas through AV transit and technology
Rigetti Computing YC Summer 2014 · Public · 51 people — Quantum coherent supercomputing.
Oklo YC Summer 2014 · Public · 50 people — Emission free, always on power from advanced fission power plants.
Aerones YC Winter 2018 · Active · 250 people — Robotics for wind turbine maintenance.
Volansi YC Winter 2017 · Acquired · 85 people — Autonomous VTOL delivery solutions.
Pachama YC Winter 2019 · Acquired · 85 people — Restoring nature to solve climate change.
Gecko Robotics YC Winter 2016 · Active · 230 people — AI + Robotics for the Built World
Boom YC Winter 2016 · Active · 227 people — Economically and environmentally sustainable supersonic travel
Thrive Agric YC Winter 2019 · Active · 227 people — ThriveAgric help Farmers in Africa access finance, insight and Markets
Zeitview YC Winter 2015 · Active · 200 people — Inspection software for renewable energy & sustainable infrastructure
Statiq. YC Summer 2020 · Active · 200 people — India's Largest EV charging network
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