Decoda Health YC Application

Summer 2023Active

Decoda Health went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 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 2023
Industry: HealthcareHealthcare IT
Team size: 15
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Daniyal AfzalFounder
Kevin ChengFounder

What Decoda Health does

Med spas, wellness clinics, and aesthetics practices run on 5-10 disconnected tools - separate systems for scheduling, charting, payments, patient communication, and more. It's expensive, error-prone, and holds teams back. Decoda is the all-in-one EMR and practice management platform purpose-built for elective care. AI is woven into every workflow - from an AI front desk that answers calls and books patients 24/7, to an ambient scribe that generates clinical notes in real time, to automated patient follow-ups that keep calendars full. Scheduling, payments, memberships, inventory, and analytics all live in one place. Live in 150+ clinics, processing $100M+ in annual transactions.

Decoda Health's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Decoda Health, Summer 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Decoda Health

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

EMR for med spas and elective care

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

We're building an all-in-one EMR and practice management platform designed specifically for med spas, wellness clinics, and aesthetics practices. Unlike generic EMRs, ours integrates scheduling, charting, payments, memberships, inventory, and patient communication in a single system. AI features include automated front desk call handling, ambient clinical note scribing, and patient follow-ups - all designed to reduce errors and overhead for elective care providers.

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.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where much of healthcare tech talent is concentrated. Being here helps us recruit and stay close to early users and investors.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Decoda Health YC application?

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