Health Harbor YC Application

Summer 2023Active

Health Harbor went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 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 2023
Industry: HealthcareHealthcare IT
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Alan LiuCEO/Founder

What Health Harbor does

We use generative AI to call insurance on behalf of healthcare clinics. We save clinics up to 40 hours of calls every week over existing outsourced human solutions. Compared to the existing solutions for benefits verifications: - We're faster -- by default, we have a turnaround of 24 hours compared to typically a 3 day turnaround for competitors - We can reach more payors -- as long as they have a phone line, we can support calling them for benefits. There's quite a few payors in both medical and dental (e.g. Seledent) that have yet to offer a digital retrieval of benefits - We're reliable and consistent -- there is no person-to-person variation or question skipping when it comes to working with software

Health Harbor's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Health Harbor

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Generative AI calls insurance for clinics

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

We built an AI system that makes phone calls to insurance companies on behalf of healthcare clinics to verify patient benefits. It replaces outsourced human callers, saving clinics up to 40 hours weekly. Our AI is faster - turnaround is usually 24 hours versus three days for competitors - and can reach payors without digital portals as long as they answer calls. This makes benefits verification quicker, more reliable, and consistent.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, and plan to continue basing Health Harbor here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and have access to healthcare networks and tech talent. Staying here after YC allows us to keep building close to clinics and insurance providers we serve.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Health Harbor YC application?

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