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Competitors
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other | Active | YC +1S26 | |
| Other | Active | YCW19 |
Adjacent
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other | Inactive | YCS21 | |
| Other | Active | YCW20 | |
| Other | Not stated | Plug and Play | |
| Other | Inactive | YCW21 | |
| Other | Active | YCS17 |
Also from X26
All of X26Founders
- Edgar PavlovskyFounder
About Aernata
Aernata is an American chemicals company producing clean fuel from industrial emissions. We're starting by converting CO2 to methanol for synthetic fuel production.
- YC batch
- X26 · Spring 2026
- Status, per YC
- Active
- Category
- Other
- Team size
- 2
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Founded
- 2026
- Checked
- 7h ago
YC tags: Carbon Capture and Removal, Alternative Fuels, Climate, Energy
Changes seen
Rewrote its one-liner; it read "Making clean methanol out of CO2."
Renamed from Pentagon.
Moved its website from pentagon.run to aernata.com.
Team went from 1 to 2 people.
Former name added: Pentagon.
Website link changed from https://pentagon.run to https://aernata.com.
Rewrote its one-liner; it read "The control plane for agent-native work."
Industry changed from B2B to Industrials.
Subindustry changed from B2B -> Productivity to Industrials -> Energy.
Newly tagged Carbon Capture and Removal, Alternative Fuels, Climate and Energy.
Category changed from ai to other.
Aernata: questions
Which YC batch was Aernata in?
Aernata was in Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch (X26).
Is Aernata still active?
Y Combinator lists Aernata as active.
Who founded Aernata?
Aernata's founders, as listed on its YC page: Edgar Pavlovsky (Founder).
Where is Aernata based?
Aernata lists San Francisco, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.