YC Spring 2026 Industrials Startups

Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch included 23 Industrials startups. Of these, 23 remain active, 0 have been acquired, and 0 have shut down.

• Advanced Metal Research (3 people) — Machine intelligence for American Welding
• 9 Mothers (19 people) — Counter Drone Systems. $1.6m sales. We delivered for the DoW.
• Tenet Industries (3 people) — Low-cost, mass-producible defense systems
• Madrone (2 people) — Hyper-efficient coolers for data centers
• Prototyping.io (2 people) — Autonomous manufacturing for mechanical parts
• Dispatch (2 people) — Satellites for Manufacturing in Space
• Surtr Defense Systems (2 people) — The hardware-agnostic operating system for drone defense
• Eden Robotics (4 people) — Autonomous services for humanity.
• Avea Robotics (2 people) — The human-in-the-loop system for robots
• Maquoketa Research (5 people) — The intelligence layer for drones
• Twolabs (2 people) — Humanoid robot platform for builders.
• matforge (2 people) — AI scientists to discover materials for the semiconductor industry.
• Nine Fives (2 people) — RF test equipment for next-gen spacecraft, drones, and cellphones
• InLoop Robotics (4 people) — Robotic arms that pick and pack your orders.
• shotwell.ai (4 people) — The Observability Layer for Robotics
• Synphony (10 people) — robots & software for farms
• AICE (2 people) — Submarine drones for defense
• Aseon Labs (5 people) — Robotic pitstops for self-driving cars
• Ornadyne (4 people) — We're building robot birds for surveillance.
• General Aviation — Fix ATC by connecting aircraft to the internet
• Apollo Atomics, Inc. — We make the most compact nuclear reactors
• Arlo Industries (3 people) — Track drones and missiles without radars - Accurate, Passive, Scalable
• Intelligence Factory (5 people) — Human Intelligence for Robots