Lucira Health YC Application

Winter 2015Public

Lucira Health went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2015 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 2015
Industry: HealthcareDiagnostics
Team size: 43
Status: Public
Launched: 2014

Founders

Debkishore MitraFounder

What Lucira Health does

Diassess Inc. is revolutionizing the way infectious diseases are prevented, diagnosed, and monitored by developing the tools necessary to empower people to become knowledgeable about their health. We produce inexpensive, disposable health diagnostic hardware that transforms any smartphone into a portable, real-time health-monitoring device for rapid, accessible, multiplexed analysis of bodily fluids anywhere in the world.

Lucira Health's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Lucira Health, Winter 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Lucira Health

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Next generation infectious disease test kits

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

We make inexpensive, disposable diagnostic hardware that turns any smartphone into a device for rapid infectious disease testing. Our kits analyze bodily fluids quickly and can be used anywhere for real-time results, making infectious disease detection accessible outside traditional labs.

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

We live in Emeryville, CA, and the company is based there.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Emeryville has the right talent and resources for hardware development and diagnostics, so it fits our needs.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Lucira Health YC application?

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