Illume Labs YC Application

Summer 2026Active

San Francisco

Illume Labs went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2026 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 2026
Industry: HealthcareConsumer Health and Wellness
Location: San Francisco
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Pari LatawaFounder
Frank LeeFounder
Jin WongFounder

What Illume Labs does

Illume is a 24/7 AI personal health & longevity companion that connects your wearables, blood panels, and genomic data to text you personalized and actionable insights. We pull in your health data and fuse it into one secure model. You get daily text updates on what changed, what it means, and what to do next; conversational health Q&A like "What should I do to improve my bloodwork?"; cross-data trend detection that catches patterns individual platforms miss; and a full platform to dig deeper, explore your health data, and text your Illume agent anytime. We're 3 MIT grads & friends, with experience at Windsurf, MIT CSAIL, Eli Lilly, & the Broad Institute.

Illume Labs's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Illume Labs, Summer 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Illume Labs

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

24/7 AI personal health & longevity companion

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

We make Illume, an AI-powered health and longevity companion. Illume connects to your wearables, blood panels, and genomic data, pulls it into one secure model, and sends you personalized, actionable insights by text. You get daily updates on what's changed, what it means, and what to do next. You can ask conversational health questions, detect health trends across sources, and dig deeper with an interactive platform.

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

We are based in San Francisco, CA. After YC, the company would continue to be based in San Francisco.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where much of the health tech and AI ecosystem is, and it's where our team is located.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Illume Labs YC application?

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