AIOS YC Application

Winter 2020Active

AIOS went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2020 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 2020
Industry: HealthcareConsumer Health and Wellness
Team size: 100
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Richie CartwrightFounder

What AIOS does

Our overarching mission is to build the AI operating system for consumer healthcare - delivering end-to-end care with near-zero marginal human time. We believe the future of healthcare is automated, intelligent, radically lower cost, and built around the consumer. We believe biology is entering a golden age. We believe profitable, focused companies beat bloated ones. We're determined to get the humans out of healthcare - replacing slow, expensive, legacy workflows with software-driven care delivered at scale. We’ve started by building this infrastructure to power our own brands - including Bolt Pharmacy and Fella Health, among others. Today, that infrastructure is helping patients access life-changing treatment for excess bodyweight. Over time, we’ll extend it across many of the categories that will define the next era of healthcare. Our infrastructure will have served 100 million patients worldwide by 2035. We’ll then use that infrastructure to deliver next-generation healthcare products at massive scale. In doing so, we aim to build the world’s first trillion-dollar healthcare company.

AIOS's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

AIOS, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

AIOS

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Building AI-native infrastructure for next-gen care

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

We're building an AI operating system that automates consumer healthcare end-to-end, reducing human involvement in delivering care. Our platform powers brands like Bolt Pharmacy and Fella Health, delivering treatment at scale with near-zero marginal human time. Over time, it will support multiple healthcare categories, making care radically cheaper and more automated.

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

We live in San Francisco and work remotely across locations, with the company based in San Francisco, CA after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose San Francisco because it's where we're based and it remains a hub for healthcare tech talent, investors, and innovation relevant to AI-driven consumer healthcare.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real AIOS YC application?

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