Galen AI YC Application

Spring 2025Active

Galen AI went through Y Combinator in the Spring 2025 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: Spring 2025
Industry: HealthcareConsumer Health and Wellness
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Priyanka ShresthaFounder
Viraj MehtaFounder

What Galen AI does

Galen is an AI-powered personal healthcare companion. We enable patients to securely connect their medical records from over 800 healthcare institutions across more than 12,000 locations in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. We also connect with over 20 popular wearable devices including Apple Watch, Fitbit, and Dexcom, bringing all your medical records and health data into one unified space. We founded Galen because for over four years, Viraj struggled to navigate several conditions related to chronic low back pain. He often found himself waiting weeks for responses from his care team, received little guidance or education about new diagnoses, and was overwhelmed trying to manage overlapping conditions and medications. His experiences are not unique. Our healthcare system is overloaded and fragmented, and often, patients are left to navigate their care on their own. Everyday there are nearly 1 billion health-related Google searches, but the responses to such queries are generic and impersonalized, because the searches lack any insight into a users personal health background. By leveraging your own data and state-of-the art LLM memory capabilities, Galen delivers personalized insights, proactive health recommendations, and 24/7 on-demand medical support - empowering patients to be an active part of their health team. We are a consumer app in beta testing and will be available on the App Store soon!

Galen AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Galen AI, Spring 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Galen AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Personal AI healthcare agent with your medical data

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

We are building an AI-powered personal healthcare companion app that securely connects users' medical records from over 800 healthcare institutions across the US, UK, and Canada, along with data from popular wearables like Apple Watch and Fitbit. Our product gathers all this data into one place and uses AI with memory capabilities to provide personalized health insights, proactive recommendations, and 24/7 on-demand medical support. Our goal is to make patients active participants in managing their health, reducing the usual fragmentation and delays they face in the healthcare system.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has a strong healthcare and AI tech community, access to talent, and proximity to major healthcare institutions we integrate with. It's the right place to build and grow Galen AI.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Galen AI YC application?

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