Cenote YC Application

Winter 2025Active

Cenote went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2025
Industry: Healthcare
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Kofi AnsongFounder
Kristy GaoFounder

What Cenote does

Cenote builds AI sales reps for online health clinics and deploys them for abandoned-cart and win-back campaigns. Today, digital and telehealth clinics rely on generic text blasts or human follow-up for speed-to-lead and customer reactivation. Since the lead has often gone cold and the outreach isn’t personalized, conversion is frequently below 1%. Cenote’s AI agents reach out immediately, communicate on the patient’s preferred schedule, and operate across channels - dramatically increasing conversion rates and unlocking revenue that otherwise goes unrealized.

Cenote's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Cenote, Winter 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Cenote

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI agents that convert and retain patients

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

We build AI sales reps specifically for digital health clinics. Our agents engage patients who start but don't complete bookings and those who have gone cold, contacting them immediately and on their preferred schedule across multiple channels. This increases conversions and recovers revenue that clinics otherwise lose.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we all live and where the healthcare and AI startup ecosystem is strong. It lets us connect easily with early customers and talent.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Cenote YC application?

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