Empirical Health YC Application

Summer 2023Active

Empirical 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: HealthcareConsumer Health and Wellness
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Brandon BallingerFounder
Raquel Rodriguez MartinezFounder

What Empirical Health does

Don't die of heart disease. While heart disease is the #1 killer worldwide, 80% of heart disease is preventable. Empirical's program starts with an advanced lab test with 100+ biomarkers, including ApoB, Lp(a), inflammation, and more. Then, we help you model your lifetime risk of heart disease and generate a plan to reduce your risk to an optimal level. Then we help you achieve that plan. Empirical is licensed, registered, and insured to deliver real medical care in 30+ US states covering 200m+ people. We're growing >25% monthly.

Empirical Health's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Empirical Health

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-based heart disease risk and prevention.

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

We built a program that starts with a detailed lab test covering 100+ biomarkers related to heart disease risk. Our AI models then calculate your lifetime heart disease risk and generate a personalized plan to reduce it to an optimal level. Finally, we provide ongoing care and support to help people actually follow through with that plan.

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

We live and work in New York, NY. After YC, the company will remain based here because that's where our licensed medical services operate and where our team is.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York lets us deliver real medical care across 30+ states covering 200 million people. It's where our founders live and where we've built the complex medical and regulatory infrastructure necessary for our product.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Empirical Health YC application?

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