Mytos YC Application

Summer 2018Active

Mytos went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2018 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 2018
Industry: HealthcareIndustrial Bio
Team size: 26
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Ali AfsharFounder/CEO
Ignacio WillatsFounder

What Mytos does

Mytos builds robots for manufacturing human cells. Operators input stem cells, and our platform turns them into specific cells such as neurons and heart cells over multiple weeks. Last year, patients were cured of Parkinson’s, vision loss, and Type 1 diabetes using stem-cell derived cells. We need 1000x the global capacity to produce these cells, and treat millions of patients. But today these Regenerative Medicines are produced by hand, meaning they’re too expensive and don’t scale. Mytos has fully automated production of these cells, making it scalable. We have our first manufacturing deal - neurons for treating Parkinson’s - and we’re in conversations with majority of the other top players.

Mytos's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Mytos, Summer 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Mytos

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Robotic human cell manufacturing

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

We build robots that take stem cells and automate their production into specific human cells like neurons or heart cells over multiple weeks. Our system replaces manual, hand-made cell manufacturing to scale regenerative medicine production.

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

We live in London, England, United Kingdom and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're based in London because that's where the biotech and regenerative medicine ecosystem we work with is concentrated, and where our team and initial manufacturing partners are located.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Mytos YC application?

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