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HyLight

YC Summer 2023 Active

Small unmanned hydrogen airships for long range monitoring

https://www.hylight.aero/ ↗
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YC company pages list founders in page JSON, but we only scrape a capped slice of the directory. Pull this slug with .venv/bin/python run_sourcing.py --sources yc_founders --slugs hylight then re-ingest. Open on YC ↗

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