Dinesafe YC Application

Summer 2018Active

Dinesafe 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: HealthcareConsumer Health and Wellness
Team size: 6
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Patrick QuadeFounder/CEO

What Dinesafe does

We provides tools, data and systems to facilitate real-time insights, decluttering outbreak detection and enhancing risk mitigation. Our surveillance is used by industry, public heath and consumers globally.

Dinesafe's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Dinesafe

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

We crowdsource food safety reports & detect outbreaks.

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

We built a platform that collects crowdsourced food safety reports and analyzes them to provide real-time insights on outbreaks. Our tools help public health officials, industry, and consumers spot and respond to risks faster by decluttering the noise around outbreak detection and risk mitigation.

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

Our main base is New York, NY, though our team is distributed with remote members. We plan to remain flexible after YC, keeping New York as a hub while allowing remote work.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is a hotspot for restaurants and public health activity, putting us close to key data sources and users. Our distributed team approach lets us tap talent without geography constraints.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Dinesafe YC application?

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