Kopra Bio YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Kopra Bio went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2024 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 2024
Industry: HealthcareTherapeutics
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Alexander HaddadFounder

What Kopra Bio does

Kopra Bio makes genetically engineered viruses that teach your immune system to kill cancer using tech we developed at UCSF. We’re making the next Keytruda ($25B/yr cancer drug blockbuster) starting with the most aggressive form of brain cancer, glioblastoma. In the most challenging brain cancer model, we improve survival from 0% with the current FDA approved treatment to 90% with our treatment.

Kopra Bio's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Kopra Bio, Summer 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Kopra Bio

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Viruses engineered to train the immune system

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

We engineer viruses that teach a patient's immune system to recognize and destroy cancer cells. Our product targets glioblastoma, improving survival rates dramatically compared to current FDA-approved treatments. We built this using technology developed at UCSF to make immunotherapy more effective against aggressive brain cancer.

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

We live in San Francisco and plan to base Kopra Bio here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we are rooted professionally and technically, with access to top biotech talent and where we can quickly iterate with collaborators and clinicians.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Kopra Bio YC application?

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