Startupsby GlyphBeyond Reach Labs
Active · Space solar arrays that grow to the size of a football field in orbit
Why it ranks
How the rank works- team of 15Team size · YC's directory+6.2
- went through YCProgram · this site+4
- hiringHiring · Titles (titles.fru.dev), YC+2
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Competitors
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other | Active | YCS26 | |
| Other | Active | YCS22 |
Adjacent
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other | Not stated | 500 Global2017 | |
| Other | Not stated | Plug and Play | |
| KNOWRONShared: mechanical engineeringAlchemist Class 28Not statedOther | Other | Not stated | AlchemistClass 28 |
| Other | Not stated | Plug and Play | |
| Other | Active | YCS16 |
Also from W26
All of W26About Beyond Reach Labs
At Beyond Reach Labs we are building solar panels for Space that grow from the size of a dining table to a football field in orbit. Mitch and Pele met 13 years ago as freshmen at UPenn studying mechanical engineering. Mitch recently got his PhD at Carnegie Mellon working with NASA on kilometer-scale deployable structures, and Pele spent seven years at SpaceX leading Dragon parachute engineering, safely returning astronauts from space. The collective satellites today use around 20MW, roughly the output of a datacenter on earth, but by 2030 there is a demand for over 10GW, a 500x increase, largely driven by orbital datacenters, space stations, and lunar outposts. If you want more power, your only option is to launch larger solar panels, which quickly become fragile or impractically expensive. As a result, power constraints already determine whether missions or industries can exist at all. But at Beyond Reach Labs we have introduced a new class of deployable solar panels giving satellites 10x more usable power without increasing launch mass or volume. This works because our patented deployable design changes geometry in space, allowing for us to reach 10x longer while remaining rigid.
- YC batch
- W26 · Winter 2026
- Status, per YC
- Active
- Category
- Other
- Team size
- 15
- Location
- New York City, NY, USA
- Checked
- 7h ago
Changes seen
Team went from 8 to 15 people.
Beyond Reach Labs: questions
Which YC batch was Beyond Reach Labs in?
Beyond Reach Labs was in Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch (W26).
Is Beyond Reach Labs still active?
Y Combinator lists Beyond Reach Labs as active.
Where is Beyond Reach Labs based?
Beyond Reach Labs lists New York City, NY, USA as its location on YC's directory.