64x Bio YC Application

Summer 2018Active

64x Bio went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2018 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: Summer 2018
Industry: HealthcareIndustrial Bio
Team size: 25
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Lexi RovnerCo-founder & CEO

What 64x Bio does

The future of medicine is taking shape, but scaling it remains a challenge. Some of the biggest breakthroughs in next generation therapies are being held back by manufacturing constraints. The science is moving fast, but the infrastructure is still catching up. Our VectorSelect platform is designed to unlock the scale these therapies need to survive. We combine massively parallelized screens with computational insights to engineer high yield cell lines and production technologies - accelerating the manufacturing of advanced therapies from the inside out.

64x Bio's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

64x Bio, Summer 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

64x Bio

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Platform for scaling gene therapy manufacturing

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

We are building VectorSelect, a platform that uses massively parallelized biological screens combined with computational methods to engineer cell lines and production technologies. This lets companies manufacturing next-generation medicines increase yields and scale their therapies more efficiently.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the biotech and software talent we need in one place. Being close to partners and our early biotech customers helps us move faster.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real 64x Bio YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from 64x Bio's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like 64x Bio would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.