Axle Health YC Application

Winter 2021Active

Axle Health went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 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 2021
Industry: HealthcareHealthcare IT
Team size: 14
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Adam StansellFounder

What Axle Health does

Axle Health provides scheduling and workforce management software for home healthcare providers. The Axle platform includes a mobile app for clinicians, an operations dashboard for office teams, proprietary logistics algorithms to optimize scheduling, and a patient engagement and booking solution. Axle is integrated with a wide range of EMRs, and the entire Axle product can be customized and accessed modularly via API. Some of the biggest home health care providers in the country use Axle’s software to improve the utilization of their clinical teams, and automate the operational burden of scheduling and dispatching.

Axle Health's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Axle Health, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Axle Health

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Scheduling and workforce management SaaS

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

We built a scheduling and workforce management platform tailored for home healthcare providers. It includes a mobile app for clinicians, an operations dashboard for office teams, logistics algorithms to optimize scheduling, and patient engagement tools. Our platform integrates with EMRs and can be customized via API.

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

We live in Los Angeles, CA, and the company is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in LA because that's where the founding team lives and where we have direct access to early users in the home healthcare space. The local healthcare providers we work with are here.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

See full application

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Axle Health YC application?

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