Floracene YC Application

Summer 2026Active

New York City

Floracene went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2026 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 2026
Industry: Healthcare
Location: New York City
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Asaph KupfermanFounder/CEO
Jonah KayeFounder/CTO

What Floracene does

Floracene lets any healthcare operator describe the internal tool they need and deploy it in one click - connected to production data, with read and write access scoped by the user. Think Lovable or Retool, except purpose-built for the needs of healthcare business that has no engineering team. The bottleneck in healthcare isn't building anymore. Anyone can vibecode an 80% solution in an afternoon, custom to their own workflow, with people already on staff. The tool then dies locally on the builder’s computer, because IT (correctly) won't let anyone deploy a tool touching PHI without first-class authentication and permissioning. Our first customer had multiple employees who had each built useful tools and dashboards locally, but couldn’t actually share these with coworkers or connect to their core practice data. Within weeks of implementing Floracene, they were able to consolidate their BI tooling into Floracene and shipped 4 net-new to production. A staggering ~$200B is spent on administrative software in healthcare every year in the US. Tens of thousands of those companies still run core operations on spreadsheets, and we're at the top of the first inning of AI adoption. Asaph and Jonah met on the hospitals team at Palantir two years ago, and have each spent the last four years in the plumbing of US healthcare: claims, eligibility, and payor contracting. Asaph was an early PM at Garner. Jonah was a founding engineer at Metriport (YC S22) after starting his own fax-automation startup for fertility clinics.

Floracene's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Floracene, Summer 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Floracene

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Vibecode & deploy HIPAA tools, no engineers needed

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

Floracene lets any healthcare operator describe and deploy the internal tool they need in one click, fully HIPAA-compliant. We connect those tools to production data, with read/write access scoped by user, so PHI is actually protected and shareable internally. It's like Lovable or Retool, but purpose-built for US healthcare teams that don't have engineers. Our users go from spreadsheet chaos and local scripts to actual production tools connected to their real data.

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

We live in New York City, NY, and will stay based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

NYC is where our healthcare customers and networks are. We're close to the market: most healthtech in the US happens here.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Floracene YC application?

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