Cellbyte YC Application

Winter 2022Active

Cellbyte 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: HealthcareHealthcare IT
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Felix SteinbrennerCo-Founder & CEO

What Cellbyte does

Cellbyte's AI agents help pharma companies launch new drugs worldwide. Market-leading firms are using Cellbyte to answer questions like “What price can we achieve for our new drug in the U.S. versus Germany?“. The three co-founders have known and worked with each other for many years: Daniel brings 5+ years of industry experience from his previous job at leading global Life Sciences consultancy Simon-Kucher. Felix has sold $3m+ ACV deals to customers like H&M for his previous YC startup. Samuel holds an MSc in Information Systems from TUM, and has built enterprise AI applications from scratch as ML Engineer at Celonis.

Cellbyte's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Cellbyte, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Cellbyte

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI Agents for Pharma Drug Launches

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

We build AI agents that help pharma companies launch drugs globally by answering complex pricing and market questions, like "What price can we achieve for this drug in the U.S. versus Germany?" Our product synthesizes data and provides actionable insights for pharma launch strategy.

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

We live in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in Munich because all three founders live here and have strong ties - there is a strong biotech and life sciences cluster here, and it's convenient for our team and current customers.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Cellbyte YC application?

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