Known Medicine YC Application

Summer 2020Acquired

Known Medicine went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2020 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 2020
Industry: Healthcare
Team size: 17
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2020

What Known Medicine does

Known Medicine combines patient-specific 3D cell culture & AI to translate drugs to clinical success. We receive patient tumors, break them down, make thousands of micro-tumors, and then treat each with different drugs to determine which they will respond best to.

Known Medicine's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Known Medicine, Summer 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Known Medicine

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Combining 3D cell culture & AI to translate drugs

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

We built a platform that takes patient tumor samples, breaks them into thousands of micro-tumors grown in 3D culture, then tests hundreds of drugs to identify which the tumor responds to best. We use AI to analyze the results and predict clinical success, aiming to help oncologists choose effective treatments tailored to each patient.

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

We live and operate in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Salt Lake City gives us access to a strong biotech and medical research community while keeping operational costs reasonable. We're embedded here, with lab facilities and our team established in this location.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Known Medicine YC application?

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