Hepatx YC Application

Summer 2018Active

Hepatx went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2018 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 2018
Industry: HealthcareTherapeutics
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Eric SchuurFounder/CEO

What Hepatx does

Our vision is to provide regenerative medicine treatments that free patients from chronic liver disease and help usher in an era where diseased and damaged tissues can be repaired.

Hepatx's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Hepatx, Summer 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Hepatx

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Replacing organ transplants with infusions

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

We develop regenerative medicine treatments that deliver cell infusions to repair chronic liver damage. Our product aims to free patients from the need for organ transplants by repairing diseased tissue with infused regenerative cells.

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

We live in Palo Alto, CA, and plan to keep the company headquartered here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Palo Alto puts us at the center of biotech innovation and close to scientific collaborators and investors who understand regenerative medicine.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Hepatx YC application?

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