Call9 YC Application

Summer 2015Inactive

Call9 went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2015 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 2015
Industry: HealthcareHealthcare Services
Team size: 51
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2015

Founders

Celina TenevFounder

What Call9 does

Call9 delivers true Emergency Medicine and Palliative Care at patients' bedsides. Currently in Skilled Nursing Facilities, Call9 decreases the time patients wait to see an EM Physician from an average of 64 minutes to moments in emergency situations. In tandem with 24/7 onsite Clinical Care Specialists*, offsite Emergency Medicine Physicians see, diagnose and treat patients at the bedside via the Call9 proprietary platform. Our focus goes beyond the medicine to assure premium patient-centered care by including patients, caregivers, and families in communications from the start. Today, our proprietary technology-enabled services reduce cost and increase quality-of-care within elder-care facilities. Tomorrow, we redefine emergency medicine. *Clinical Care Specialists(TM) are elite emergency responders. Excellent bedside manner and rigorous continuing emergency training make Call9, PC's CCSs a unique specialty.

Call9's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Call9, Summer 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Call9

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Emergency medicine at patients' bedsides

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

We have built a platform that connects offsite Emergency Medicine physicians with patients in Skilled Nursing Facilities, enabling video visits and bedside care. Combined with our Clinical Care Specialists onsite, we reduce the wait time for urgent emergency care from over an hour to just moments, handling diagnosis and treatment remotely but with immediate, in-person response when needed.

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

We live in Brooklyn, New York and plan to keep the company based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Our early customers are Skilled Nursing Facilities nearby, making Brooklyn the natural base for working closely with our care teams and patients. The density of healthcare facilities here also helps us iterate rapidly.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Call9 YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Call9's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Call9 would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.