Clara YC Application

Spring 2026Active

Clara went through Y Combinator in the Spring 2026 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: Spring 2026
Industry: HealthcareConsumer Health and Wellness
Team size: 9
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

George Favvas
Caitlin Swift
Zeeshan Ahmed
Cuauhtli Padilla

What Clara does

Clara is an AI primary care and longevity practice from the team that founded and grew Circle Medical to $100M in revenue. Our mission at Clara is to add one billion years of healthspan to humanity. We do this with an AI with deep clinical knowledge, coupled with the ability to sift through medical data to detect trends and patterns that could be missed. Unlike Claude or ChatGPT, Clara can see your medical data and then act. Chat with Clara as you would a doctor and Clara can help with you make sense of symptoms, get medication refills, order and understand labs, and achieve health goals. Medical recommendations are preliminary until one of our human medical providers in the loop reviews and approves them.

Clara's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Clara, Spring 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Clara

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI primary care doctor

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

We are building Clara, an AI-powered primary care and longevity practice. Clara chats with patients like a doctor, reviews their medical data, helps interpret symptoms, orders labs, and manages medication refills. Final recommendations go through human providers who verify and approve them.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where the entire founding team lives and where we have built our product and early operations. It's also ideal for recruiting and connecting with healthcare and AI partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Clara YC application?

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