YC Summer 2026 Industrials Startups

Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch included 36 Industrials startups. Of these, 36 remain active, 0 have been acquired, and 0 have shut down.

• Control Seat (2 people) — Control and Monitoring of Industrial Operations
• OS3 (2 people) — Intelligence and Machines for Physical Labor
• Molagri (4 people) — Resistance free pesticides.
• 6thSense — A nervous system for physical AI
• Greypoint Industries (4 people) — Manufacturing the future of autonomous swarm warfare.
• Hop Aero (6 people) — Rocket cargo delivery to contested environments
• Operon — Agentic data layer for manufacturing & process industries.
• Waddle Labs (2 people) — Agents for robotics control.
• Libra Robotics — Autonomous robots for solar farm construction
• Applied Electrodynamics, Inc. (5 people) — A new kind of camera that can see through walls.
• Proprio Robotics (2 people) — Building autonomous data centers
• Torus (5 people) — Legora for physical engineering firms
• HERA (2 people) — Hera catches thousand dollar errors before they hit the shop floor.
• Kara (3 people) — Making diamond an engineering material
• Maingen (2 people) — RL environments for industrial operations
• Synapse Semiconductor (2 people) — Collapsing the edge AI vision hardware stack into one wafer
• Rise Reforming (4 people) — We turn waste gases into valuable supply-secure chemicals
• GUILD (2 people) — Making aerospace parts faster and cheaper for defense
• Manifold (2 people) — Low-cost, deployment-ready robotic labor for warehouses
• Agency Tool Company (3 people) — Reliable infrastructure to build, deploy and manage real-world robots.
• Nori (4 people) — Sub-1500$ robot anyone can program
• Orvixo (2 people) — AI advanced planning and optimisation for manufacturers.
• Aktoria Robotics (2 people) — Human as API for robots
• Neuron Industries (2 people) — Industrial Controllers built for AI
• Isengard Industries Inc (30 people) — Mass-produced AI strike systems and Counter-UAS
• Cosmic Robotics (8 people) — Autonomous construction on Earth and beyond
• ProvenMetal (4 people) — Fast-turn, American made PCBs
• Praxis AI (3 people) — Turns every company into a data vendor
• 83 Sciences (3 people) — AI-native materials discovery powered by unpublished experimental data
• Skymerse — Autopilot for Flight Operations
• Grip (4 people) — Physical AI for waste management
• Earendil Robotics (7 people) — Drone swarm defence at a small-unit level
• Robocurve (2 people) — Evaluating robots in the real world.
• Salem Robotics Inc (2 people) — We deploy robots for inspections in hazardous spaces, like nuclear.
• Atomarine (2 people) — Off shore nuclear powered data centers at sea.
• Baud (3 people) — AI chips for ultra-fast model training and inference