Eligible YC Application

Summer 2012Active

Eligible went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2012 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 2012
Industry: HealthcareHealthcare IT
Status: Active
Launched: 2012

Founders

Katelyn GleasonFounder/CEO

What Eligible does

Eligible is the nation's first insurance billing platform built for builders. Founded in Mountain View California in 2011, Eligible's platform gives bootstrapping healthcare startups the scale of enterprise, and the Fortune 500s the agility of the hungry entrepreneur. Eligible has been listed as one of Business Insider’s 19 Hottest Startups to Watch and Katelyn has been featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 in Healthcare, Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business, and was named a Rising Star of Healthcare by Becker’s IT & CIO Review.

Eligible's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Eligible, Summer 2012 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Eligible

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Insurance Billing APIs for Healthcare Businesses

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

We built an API platform that handles insurance billing for healthcare businesses. Our product integrates with healthcare providers' systems to automate eligibility checks, claims submission, and payment processing, making it easier for startups and enterprises to manage insurance workflows without building them from scratch.

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

We live in Brooklyn, NY, and would base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Brooklyn is where all three of us live and is where we've built the product and initial relationships. Post-YC, we want to keep the team together in a city with great access to healthcare startups and technical talent.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Eligible YC application?

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