Asher Bio YC Application

Summer 2019Active

Asher Bio went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2019
Industry: HealthcareTherapeutics
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2019

Founders

Ivana DjureticFounder
Andy YeungFounder

What Asher Bio does

Asher Bio is a biotechnology company developing precisely targeted immunotherapies for cancer and other diseases. Our cis-targeting platform aims to enable selective activation of specific immune cell types, addressing the inherent limitations of otherwise pleiotropic immunotherapies that act on multiple cell types. Our approach has the potential to precisely direct different immune mediators against a range of target immune cell-types and create best-in-class immunotherapies in cancer, autoimmune and infectious diseases. Asher Bio is backed by Third Rock Ventures and is located in South San Francisco.

Asher Bio's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Asher Bio, Summer 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Asher Bio

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

We build better immunotherapies

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

We are developing a platform that enables selective activation of specific immune cell types. Our product uses cis-targeting to precisely direct immune mediators at cancer and other disease targets, overcoming the limitations of broad-acting immunotherapies that affect multiple cell types simultaneously.

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

We live and operate in San Carlos, CA and would remain in the Bay Area after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in the biotech hub near South San Francisco, which places us close to expertise, potential partners, and infrastructure essential for developing immunotherapies.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Asher Bio YC application?

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