Durate YC Application

Fall 2024Active

Durate went through Y Combinator in the Fall 2024 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: Fall 2024
Industry: HealthcareHealthcare IT
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Michael MounajjedFounder, CEO
Benjamin LiuFounder

What Durate does

Durate helps physician groups, clinics, and hospitals eliminate coverage gaps and create personalized schedules. Our platform auto-syncs with existing systems and uses smart automation to build optimized physician schedules in seconds.

Durate's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Durate, Fall 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Durate

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Automated physician scheduling

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

We built a platform that automates physician scheduling for groups, clinics, and hospitals. It syncs with existing scheduling systems and creates optimized, personalized schedules in seconds to eliminate coverage gaps.

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

We currently live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we both live and where the healthcare IT ecosystem thrives. It keeps us close to our early users and partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Durate YC application?

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