1910 YC Application

Winter 2019Active

1910 went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2019 batch as a Healthcare company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Winter 2019
Industry: HealthcareTherapeutics
Team size: 20
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Jen AsherFounder & CEO

What 1910 does

We are the only AI-native biotech pioneering small and large molecule therapeutics discovery by integrating massive multimodal data, frontier AI models, and high-throughput lab automation into an infrastructure for AI-enabled drug discovery.

1910's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

1910, Winter 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

1910

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Multimodal AI Platform for Drug Discovery

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We build an AI-native platform that integrates large and small molecule data, multiple AI models, and lab automation to discover new therapeutics. Our product transforms drug discovery by handling diverse data types in a unified way for faster, more precise results.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in Boston, MA, and plan to keep the company based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Boston has a strong biotech ecosystem and access to top talent in AI and therapeutics, which are critical to building our product.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real 1910 YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from 1910's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like 1910 would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.