Yank Tech ⚡

Opening Remarks

This week, I’ve been thinking about how consumer social is evolving in an AI-native world.

For years, social platforms were built around a simple question: Who do you follow? Increasingly, that question has become: What should I see next? I think the next shift is even bigger. AI won't just rank content, it will rank intent. Instead of concluding that you like running content, it may understand you're training for a marathon. Instead of assuming you engage with startup posts, it may understand you're actively fundraising.

The best consumer products won't just understand what you're clicking on. They'll understand what you're trying to accomplish. Now, onto this week's feature:

-Brett

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Setting the Scene

• Every robot, vehicle, and connected device eventually needs to stop, dock, or plug in.

• That's a problem because every charging station, cable, and connector creates friction; machines spend less time working and more time charging.

• Existing wireless charging has mostly been limited to low-power devices like phones, earbuds, and sensors that still need to sit in exactly the right place.

• But what if industrial robots, military equipment, vehicles, and even spacecraft could receive power without stopping?

• This week's company is building high-power wireless charging systems that keep mission-critical machines running without physical connections.

In a Sentence

Yank Tech is building long-range and high-powered wireless charging systems that let robots, vehicles, defense equipment, and space hardware charge without cables or exposed connectors.

• Systems: Customers integrate their existing devices with Yank Tech’s hardware stack, adding wireless power capabilities without significant redesign.

• Without Cables: Once installed, devices charge when they are within a meter of the wireless charger, significantly farther than the industry standard for high-powered wireless charging solutions.

The Basics

• Industry: Wireless Power, Industrial Automation, Aerospace & Defense

• Headquarters: Brooklyn, NY

• Year Founded: 2013

• Employee Count: 12

• Investors: Angel Investor Forum, various angels

• Amount Raised: ~$4.5M

• Business Model: Sells wireless power hardware, licenses application-specific IP, and earns royalties from deployed systems

• Early Traction: ~$6M in new government and commercial contracts over the past year, including NASA, the U.S. Army, and automotive Tier 1 suppliers

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Due Diligence

WHAT WE LIKE

• Market Opportunity: Yank Tech sits across several massive market opportunities at once, including industrial robots ($34B) that need more uptime, defense systems ($2.5T) that need safer and more reliable power in the field, and even consumer devices ($800B) where charging remains one of the last physical friction points.

• Mission-Critical Wedge: While many wireless charging companies focus on phones, IoT devices, or parked vehicles, Yank Tech targets environments where downtime, exposed connectors, and failed charging can create real operational risk.

• Vertical Expansion: The same wireless power technology that keeps a factory robot running can also power military equipment, mobility systems, and spacecraft. As Yank Tech proves the platform in one industry, it can expand into adjacent markets without rebuilding its core technology.

POTENTIAL RISKS

• Market Prioritization: Because Yank Tech’s platform can serve so many end markets, the company will need to avoid spreading engineering and sales resources across too many custom deployments before one wedge scales.

• Procurement Timelines: Many of Yank Tech’s strongest early customers sit in defense, aerospace, and large industrial markets, where testing, procurement, and payment cycles can stretch for months or years.

• Safety Requirements: Delivering high-power wireless charging requires customers to trust that the system is safe around people, equipment, and sensitive environments.

Founder Profile

• Josh Yank, CEO: Founded Yank Tech while completing his MBA at Binghamton University.

Comps

• WiTricity: Focused on wireless charging for parked EVs, more narrowly centered on automotive charging pads rather than broader long-range power.

• Resonant Link: Focused on fast and efficient charging for lower voltage medical devices and industrial systems, compared to Yank Tech’s more versatile high-power wireless charging.

• Powermat: Wireless charging company serving consumer, automotive, and industrial applications, generally contact-based or close-range charging rather than Yank Tech’s long-range, misalignment-tolerant systems.

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