Daybreak Health YC Application

Summer 2020Active

Daybreak Health went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2020 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 2020
Industry: HealthcareConsumer Health and Wellness
Team size: 20
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Alex AlvaradoFounder
Sid CidambiFounder

What Daybreak Health does

Daybreak offers comprehensive and clinically-validated online mental health services designed for youth, like teletherapy, psychiatry and digital education. We partner with schools and pediatric groups to make access to services easy, and strive to deliver zero cost to the end consumer through insurance and government funding.

Daybreak Health's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Daybreak Health, Summer 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Daybreak Health

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The first digital mental health system for youth

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

We built an online mental health platform tailored for young people that combines teletherapy, psychiatry, and digital education in one system. Our partners are schools and pediatric groups, which allows us to deliver mental health services that are clinically validated and accessible, focusing on removing cost barriers by using insurance and government funding.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company is based here with a distributed remote team.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose San Francisco because it's a hub for both healthcare startups and remote tech talent. Our work benefits from proximity to healthcare partners and investors, but we operate with flexibility remotely to access the best people.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Daybreak Health YC application?

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