Indee Labs

Indee Labs YC Application

Winter 2017Active

Indee Labs went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2017 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 2017
Industry
HealthcareDrug Discovery and Delivery
Team size
5
Status
Active
Launched
2016

Founders

  • Ryan Pawell
    Ryan PawellFounder/CEO

What Indee Labs does

Intracellular delivery is the most problematic step in T cell immunotherapy discovery, development and manufacturing. Indee Labs is developing a non-viral intracellular delivery system based on microfluidic vortex shedding (µVS) to rapidly deliver nucleic acids, proteins and gene editing complexes to patient and donor T cells with minimal perturbation.

Indee Labs's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Indee Labs, Winter 2017 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

  1. Founders2
  2. Company7
  3. Progress7
  4. Idea4
  5. Equity3
  6. Curious2
  7. Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Indee Labs

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Enabling T cell immunotherapy discovery

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

We are building a microfluidic vortex shedding (µVS) based intracellular delivery system that rapidly delivers nucleic acids, proteins, and gene editing complexes into patient and donor T cells. This solves the current bottleneck in T cell immunotherapy discovery, development, and manufacturing by offering a non-viral, less disruptive alternative to traditional delivery methods.

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

We live in Berkeley, CA, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are rooted in Berkeley because of proximity to leading cell therapy research institutions, access to biotech talent, and the local innovation ecosystem that supports healthcare startups.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Indee Labs YC application?

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

What YC batch was Indee Labs in?

Indee Labs was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2017 batch.

Who founded Indee Labs?

Indee Labs was founded by Ryan Pawell.

What does Indee Labs do?

Enabling T cell immunotherapy discovery, development and manufacturing

How do I read the full reconstructed application?

Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Indee Labs's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.

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