Comprehend YC Application

Winter 2011Acquired

Comprehend went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2011 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 2011
Industry: HealthcareHealthcare IT
Team size: 51
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2012

Founders

Rick MorrisonFounder/CEO

What Comprehend does

Comprehend, the leader in Clinical Intelligence solutions, is focused on accelerating treatments to patients. Our suite of software applications provide clinical operations, data management and medical review teams with the critical insights and automation they need to improve the speed, safety and quality of their clinical trials. Designed to unify, monitor and analyze clinical data across disparate sources in real-time, Comprehend's Cloud software delivers solutions for CRO oversight, centralized monitoring, risk monitoring, data review and medical monitoring. Comprehend’s investors include Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Eminence Capital. Learn more at

Comprehend's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Comprehend, Winter 2011 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Comprehend

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

SaaS to speed up and improve clinical trials

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

We make clinical intelligence software that helps clinical operations, data management, and medical review teams run trials faster and safer. Our tools unify and analyze data from multiple systems in real-time to support oversight, monitoring, and medical review workflows.

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

We live and work in Redwood City, CA, and plan to keep the company headquartered here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Redwood City puts us close to many biotech and CRO companies, which are our customers and partners. Staying here keeps us close to the clinical trial ecosystem.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Comprehend YC application?

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