Nine Fives
<!-- hacklab:yc-profile -- YC company profile RF test equipment for next-gen spacecraft, drones, and cellphones Nine Fives produces modern radio frequency test equipment and sol…
About Nine Fives
YC company profile
RF test equipment for next-gen spacecraft, drones, and cellphones
Nine Fives produces modern radio frequency test equipment and solutions to disrupt the $130B test equipment industry. By combining modern electronics, AI ready test automation, and strategic supply chains, we’re equipping our customers to cut their time to market in half.
- YC batch: Spring 2026
- Founded: 2025
- Team size: 3
- Location: San Francisco
- Country: US
- Status: Active
- Industry: Industrials
- Stage: Early
- Tags: Hard Tech, Aerospace, Telecommunications
- YC partner: Tom Blomfield
Founders
Noah Levy — Founder/CEO
Calibrated largest phased array in SpaceX history, designed Starship primary RF hardware, worked on radar altimeter for Falcon 9 and S-Band Transceiver for Dragon 2 capsule. I am not a fan of modern RF test equipment from legacy vendors.
Andrew Kurtz — Founder
I spent the last 9 years as a mechanical engineer working on a wide variety of aerospace products. Now building better test equipment with Nine Fives
Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.