Arc
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Arc was a drone startup in Y Combinator's Summer 2012 batch, founded by Austin Lockwood, Haomiao Huang and Michael Vitus. Based in Palo Alto, California, it built drone-based cameras designed for aerial videography, promising reliable and maneuverable drones that could capture high-quality footage from angles impossible with traditional methods.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Company founded
Austin Lockwood, Haomiao Huang and Michael Vitus found Arc and enter Y Combinator's Summer 2012 batch with a drone camera for aerial videography (arccameras.com).
- Operations ended
By 2015 Arc is listed as inactive in startup directories, marking the end of the two-person drone-camera effort.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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