Excepgen YC Application

Winter 2019Active

Excepgen went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2019 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: Winter 2019
Industry: HealthcareTherapeutics
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Thomas FolliardFounder

Excepgen's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Excepgen, Winter 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Excepgen

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-driven therapeutic target discovery

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

We build a platform that uses AI to identify new therapeutic targets in human tissue. Our product analyzes cellular data to find disease-related gene expressions that traditional methods miss. This helps biotech companies focus their drug development on targets with higher confidence.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and after YC the company will remain based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're based in San Francisco because it's where the biotech and AI talent intersect and where we have access to early collaborators and partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Excepgen YC application?

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