Medigram YC Application

Winter 2012Active

Medigram went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2012 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 2012
Industry: HealthcareHealthcare IT
Team size: 11
Status: Active
Launched: 2011

Founders

Michael ChiuFounder/CEO
Yuhao DingFounder/CTO
Stephen OakleyFounder

What Medigram does

Have you ever wondered why it's so hard for physicians to communicate quickly and why the leading cause of preventable death is still a delay in communication? Our team has built the solution for this. Medigram is a team of tier 1 health system CxO IT executives, technologists, SaaS exec, physicians, engineers, and data experts. We have developed a breakthrough service for the medical industry to save lives and for hospitals to make millions per year. Medigram instantly flags insights from clinician chats for immediate insight into hospital operations and patient care. This reduces critical response times by 50%. We've designed this system to provide instant, reliable messaging (including images and audio files) across very complicated network environments in hospitals. Medigram is secure, designed for HIPAA, and a full stack system which includes database back end, middleware, logic, and client apps for iOS, Android, desktop, and the web. Our solution to this is Mobile Intelligence For Healthcare by providing a secure, intelligent workflow management platform for the patient care ecosystem and medical professionals. Within the healthcare environment, you have physicians, the patient care team, EMR, workflow, data, and administration which needs to be tied together with intelligence through Medigram.

Medigram's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Medigram, Winter 2012 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Medigram

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

HIPAA-compliant secure messaging for doctors

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

We built Medigram, a secure messaging app designed for healthcare teams to communicate instantly. It handles text, images, and audio securely over hospital networks. Medigram flags important insights from chats to help hospitals reduce critical response times by 50%. Our product runs on iOS, Android, desktop, and web with a database back end and middleware designed specifically for healthcare workflows and HIPAA compliance.

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

We currently live in Los Gatos, CA, and after YC the company will remain based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Los Gatos places us near key health systems in the Bay Area and tech resources we rely on. It's where our team lives and where being close to healthcare partners matters.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Medigram YC application?

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