Lully YC Application
Lully 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
- HealthcareConsumer Health and Wellness
- Team size
- 5
- Status
- Inactive
- Launched
- 2014
Founders
Varun BoriahFounder/CEO
Andy RinkFounder/CMO
What Lully does
At Lully, we’re building the children’s sleep company. We create innovative, thoughtfully-designed, clinically-proven consumer products to help children, and their families, sleep better. Our first product, The Sleep Guardian is the only solution for night terrors. Based on our patented, clinically-proven technology, the Sleep Guardian goes under the mattress and uses precisely-timed vibrations to avoid night terror episodes completely. The Sleep Guardian is just the initial product in a suite of smart solutions based on our process: combining a user-centric approach with a clinical understanding of sleep to solve unmet problems in children’s sleep. Based in San Francisco, Lully was founded by Dr. Andy Rink, a doctor and father, and Varun Boriah, a medical device entrepreneur. Lully was spun out of the Stanford Biodesign Fellowship and is backed by Y Combinator, Two Sigma Ventures, Stanford-StartX Fund and Highway1. We’ve partnered with Stanford Sleep and Riley Children’s Hospital in our goal to help families sleep better.
Lully's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Lully, Winter 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Lully
Under-the-mattress sleep tech for kids
We're building the Sleep Guardian, an under-mattress device that precisely times vibrations to prevent night terror episodes in children. It's the first clinically-proven product targeting this unmet problem in kids' sleep, designed to help families avoid these disturbing events.
We live in San Francisco, and after YC the company would remain based here to stay connected to tech and healthcare communities.
San Francisco gives us access to the medical device community, sleep research partners like Stanford, and a pool of engineers familiar with hardware and health tech.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Lully YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Lully's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Lully would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Lully in?
Lully was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2015 batch.
Who founded Lully?
Lully was founded by Varun Boriah, Andy Rink.
What does Lully do?
Lully is developing an under-the-mattress technology that precisely…
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