Breathe Well-being YC Application

Winter 2020Inactive

Breathe Well-being 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: 15
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2020

Founders

Aditya KaickerFounder
Rohan VermaFounder

What Breathe Well-being does

Breathe Well-being helps people prevent or manage chronic lifestyle diseases by losing weight through its digital therapeutics program (weight-loss clinic in a cloud, think Noom for India). The program is delivered remotely over the phone and through the mobile app, therefore users are able to follow the lifestyle program from the convenience of their home. Our online program is 3X more effective at 1/4th the cost. The user receives bi-weekly 1-1 coaching focused on behavioral changes, online community for support and motivation, and a mobile app that provides educational lessons, lifestyle tracking tools and weekly challenges (gamification). The content and behavioral change techniques are centred around healthy diet, fitness, lifestyle and stress reduction. Our unique coaching methodology employs cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), goal-oriented treatment and self-efficacy enhancement. The coach helps the user bust negative emotions of past failures in weight-loss and increase motivation by linking short-term achievable goals with the user's personal values. Through the program, the user is able to self-identify triggers of unhealthy habit adoption and make better decisions. Breathe Well-being has demonstrated success in helping people lose weight, build long-term healthy habits and reduce/eliminate medication for lifestyle diseases (example - Type 2 Diabetes). We are looking for ideas to improve our sales processes so that we can get users to enrol at a higher conversion rate post our 1-week free trial. We need to identify triggers when users are most likely to pay and provide them with a seamless process for paying on-the-spot.

Breathe Well-being's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Breathe Well-being, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Breathe Well-being

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Digital program for chronic disease prevention

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

We have built a digital therapeutics program that helps users lose weight and manage or prevent chronic lifestyle diseases remotely via phone and mobile app. It combines bi-weekly 1-on-1 coaching, online community support, educational content, tracking tools, and gamified challenges, all focused on behavioral change through CBT and personalized goals.

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

We currently live and work in New Delhi, India, and the company is based here. After YC, we plan to stay based where our users are primarily located, focusing on India.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose New Delhi because it is a large urban center with many potential users dealing with lifestyle diseases. Being local helps us understand user needs and tailor content culturally and linguistically.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Breathe Well-being YC application?

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