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Aurorin CAD (YC W26) — Claude code for mechanical engineers

There are 2 problems: The first, CAD software is slow and the second, designing with it is a tedious process with many steps. Aurorin solves both of these problems by being a CAD software built from the ground up on a modern tech stack with AI at its heart.

Aurorin CAD is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2026 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Claude code for Mechanical Engineers. The founder listed is Michael Baron (Founder/CEO) (Y Combinator directory entry, January 22, 2026).

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Aurorin CAD

New accelerator entry · 2026-01-22 · the record

Winter 2026
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1
people
Early
stage
United States of America
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BatchWinter 2026
Announced2026-01-22
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size1
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringYes
Sitehttps://aurorincad.com
Founded2026
YC group partnerJared Friedman
Previously known asRapid CAD, Aurorin

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There are 2 problems: The first, CAD software is slow and the second, designing with it is a tedious process with many steps. Aurorin solves both of these problems by being a CAD software built from the ground up on a modern tech stack with AI at its heart. Building the CAD kernel lets us fully leverage AI while modernizing execution speed. Almost all existing CAD software (Solidworks, NX, Creo, Catia, Fusion 360, Onshape etc) use the same couple of underlying CAD kernels built in the 80's. It's common for these programs to take 4 hours to open a file. Aurorin uses a custom parametric and B-Rep driven CAD Kernel built to take full advantage of modern CPUs and GPUs and be AI native.

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