BBy YC Application
BBy went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 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 2022
- Industry
- HealthcareMedical Devices
- Team size
- 70
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2022
What BBy does
BBy's condensing device turns milk into a fine powder that spares the biome leaving it biologically and immunologically active. This allows hospitals to stop wasting precious nursing time defrosting milk for hours and milk wastage from discarding rules. Simply weigh the powder, add water, shake and serve. No more freezing, no more defrosting, only patient care. NICUs are time sensitive wards in the hospital, time is everything and yet nurses today continue to prepare frozen milk for infants in what's known as the milk shift. A shift where the nurse spends the day defrosting milk for the next shift of nurses. Our tech is now fully peer reviewed and published, yielding safe and reliable results in over 20 hospitals in the New York Tri-State. The company is headed by Vansh Langer MD, a physician (Windsor University, University of Chicago) and Blanca Aguilar Uscanga PhD, a Bioengineering/Food Science PhD (University of Guadalajara /Centro Universitario de Ciencias Exactas e Ingenierías (CUCEI)) team that has over 50 published works in the field between them and are experts in the science of infant nutrition. Vansh saw the immense need for a time critical solution in the NICU and helped solve the puzzle with Dra. Blanca and her team and decided to work together to: Nurture the Future.
BBy's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
BBy, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
BBy
BBy powders breast milk that's immunologically active & lasts 6 months
Our product is a device that condenses fresh breast milk into a fine powder, preserving its biological and immunological properties. This powder can be stored for six months without freezing. Hospitals, especially NICUs, use it to avoid the long, inefficient process of freezing and defrosting milk. Nurses just weigh the powder, add water, shake, and serve, saving critical nursing time and reducing milk waste.
We live and work in New York City, and after YC the company will remain based here.
We built BBy where the problem is acute, in the New York Tri-State with over 20 hospitals using our product and peer-reviewed publications here. We stay close to our users - NICU nurses and hospital staff - and to our team, who are deeply rooted in the local clinical and bioengineering community.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real BBy YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from BBy's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like BBy would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was BBy in?
BBy was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2022 batch.
What does BBy do?
BBy powders breast milk that's immunologically active & lasts 6 months
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
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