Harmonic Discovery YC Application

Summer 2021Active

Harmonic Discovery went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2021 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 2021
Industry: HealthcareDrug Discovery and Delivery
Team size: 8
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Rayees RahmanFounder CEO
J LeeFounder
Marcel PatekFounder

What Harmonic Discovery does

We are a drug discovery company developing a new generation of therapeutics that embrace the complexity of disease. Currently available approaches for creating drugs work on the principle of finding one drug-one protein 'magic bullets'. However, diseases such as cancer and autoimmunity are often the result of several dysregulated proteins across many distinct biological pathways. We are building a computational-experimental platform to design therapeutics that can target several disease-causing proteins at once. By designing multi-specific drugs, we are able to create therapeutics that are more efficacious and safer than existing medicines.

Harmonic Discovery's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Harmonic Discovery, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Harmonic Discovery

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Multi-targeted therapeutics for complex diseases

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

We are developing a platform that designs multi-specific drugs targeting several proteins involved in complex diseases like cancer and autoimmunity. Our product combines computational predictions with experimental validation to create therapeutics that are more effective and safer than single-target drugs.

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

We are based in New York, NY, with some team members working remotely. The company will remain based in New York after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is where our scientific and technical team is located, and it puts us close to biopharma partners and research institutions essential to our work.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Harmonic Discovery YC application?

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