Blank Bio YC Application

Summer 2025Active

Blank Bio went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2025 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 2025
Industry: HealthcareTherapeutics
Team size: 6
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Jonny HsuFounder
Philip FradkinFounder
Ian ShiFounder

What Blank Bio does

Blank Bio is an applied AI research lab focused on increasing the success rates of clinical trials. We do this by training RNA foundation models that learn the patterns that shape disease progression and patient response to treatment. We aim to help pharma make more informed decisions in clinical trials by capturing the biology that makes each patient’s tumour unique. We’re a technical team of AI scientists and engineers from companies including Recursion, Deep Genomics, DeepMind, and Amazon, and institutions including Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, Stanford, and the Vector Institute.

Blank Bio's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Blank Bio, Summer 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Blank Bio

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

RNA intelligence for precision medicine

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

We build RNA foundation models trained on patient data to capture the biology of tumors. Our models reveal patterns in disease progression and treatment response, helping pharma companies make smarter decisions in clinical trials.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the deep AI and biotech talent we need and proximity to pharma partners. Being here lets us recruit and collaborate closely with key stakeholders.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Blank Bio YC application?

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