Medplum YC Application

Summer 2022Active

Medplum went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2022 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 2022
Industry: HealthcareHealthcare IT
Team size: 12
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Reshma KhilnaniFounder
Rahul AgarwalFounder
Cody EbbersonCo-Founder and CTO

What Medplum does

Medplum makes it easy to build healthcare webapps that are compliant and interoperability ready. Our open source toolkit allows healthcare providers write apps that are HIPAA compliant, SOC2 certified and FHIR native - streamlining payor connections, health system integrations and more.

Medplum's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Medplum, Summer 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Medplum

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

API first electronic health record (EHR) that is open source

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

Medplum is a developer toolkit that makes it easier to build healthcare web applications that comply with HIPAA and SOC2, and are FHIR native. Our API-first open source platform helps healthcare providers and developers quickly build interoperable health systems integrations and streamline payor connections.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company is based here as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is our home and a hub for healthcare innovation and developer communities, making it easier to recruit and collaborate.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Medplum YC application?

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