Gleam YC Application

Summer 2023Active

Gleam went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 batch as a B2B 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: B2B
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Oliver KehFounder

What Gleam does

Gleam automates data entry for clinical research sites.

Gleam's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Gleam

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Automating Data Entry for Clinical Trials

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

We built Gleam to automate the manual data entry clinical research sites do when capturing trial information. Our product uses AI to extract and validate data directly from clinical documents and input it into trial databases. This reduces error and speeds up one of the most tedious parts of running clinical trials.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the biotech and AI talent we need nearby, and it's where we built Gleam. Keeping the company here helps us recruit and work closely with early customers in biotech and healthcare.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Gleam YC application?

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