Multiply Labs YC Application

Summer 2016Active

Multiply Labs went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2016 batch as a Industrials 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 2016
Industry: IndustrialsManufacturing and Robotics
Team size: 36
Status: Active
Launched: 2016

Founders

Fred PariettiFounder/CEO
Alice MelocchiFounder

What Multiply Labs does

The traditional manufacturing process for individualized drugs is extremely slow and expensive, because it is based on manual labor. At Multiply Labs, we believe that robotics is the only way to truly scale the production of individualized drugs - finally providing these life-saving therapies to the millions of patients who need them. We develop cloud-controlled modular robotic systems that manufacture individualized drugs, and we deploy these systems in the facilities of our pharma customers. This is pharma robotics as a service: we sell the robotic production capacity that our customers need to scale their next-gen individualized drugs.

Multiply Labs's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Multiply Labs, Summer 2016 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Multiply Labs

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Robotic production capacity for pharma manufacturing

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

We build cloud-controlled modular robotic systems that manufacture individualized drugs. Our customers are pharmaceutical companies making next-generation therapies. Instead of manual, slow, and expensive production, we sell robotic production capacity deployed on their sites to scale their manufacturing.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team lives, and being close to both tech and biotech industries here helps us build robotics systems tailored to pharma customers.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Multiply Labs YC application?

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