HealthKey YC Application

Winter 2025Active

HealthKey went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2025
Industry: HealthcareHealthcare IT
Team size: 10
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Josh SabolFounder/CEO

What HealthKey does

HealthKey helps doctors offices generate more revenue by finding eligible patients for their clinical trials. We match at-risk patients with cutting-edge treatments, ultimately getting patients access to potentially life-changing treatments faster. Big Pharma pays a lot of money to clinics for each patient they enroll, but finding patients who qualify is an entirely manual process today. We use AI to prescreen doctors’ existing patients against Clinical Trials’ eligibility criteria, making enrollment fast and easy.

HealthKey's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

HealthKey, Winter 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

HealthKey

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-powered Patient Identification for Clinical Trials

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

We built a platform doctors' offices use to automatically match their existing patients against clinical trial eligibility criteria using AI. This replaces the manual, slow search process with an automated prescreening tool that helps clinics find trial candidates faster and more accurately.

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

We live in Austin, TX and the company is based here and will stay here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Austin has a strong healthcare tech community and access to both technical talent and healthcare customers, making it the natural place for us to build HealthKey.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real HealthKey YC application?

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