Carrot Fertility YC Application

Summer 2017Active

Carrot Fertility went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2017 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 2017
Industry: HealthcareHealthcare Services
Status: Active
Launched: 2017

Founders

Asima AhmadFounder/CMO
Tammy SunFounder

What Carrot Fertility does

Carrot is a simple and affordable way for companies of any size to build or enhance their fertility benefit. Carrot can help with egg freezing, infertility treatments including in vitro fertilization (IVF), LGBT+ conception, and more. Fertility care is daunting and scary; our focus is on improving the employee experience during high impact moments related to fertility-- helping save time, money and stress.

Carrot Fertility's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Carrot Fertility, Summer 2017 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Carrot Fertility

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Customized fertility benefits for modern companies.

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

We built a benefit platform that lets companies offer fertility services like egg freezing, IVF, and LGBT+ conception support to their employees. It simplifies these complex, often expensive processes and improves the experience by saving employees time, money, and reducing stress during difficult fertility moments.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team is already located and it's central to our customers and talent in healthcare and tech.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Carrot Fertility YC application?

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