Notable Labs YC Application
Notable Labs 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
- 40
- Status
- Public
- Launched
- 2014
Founders
Matthew De SilvaFounder/CEO
Pete QuinzioFounder
What Notable Labs does
Notable Labs is building a personalized drug discovery platform to identify treatment options for relapsed and refractory cancer patients - starting with blood cancer - to address the long tail of cancer treatment. We look at a person’s actual cancer cells, test combinations of FDA approved drugs, and see which combinations kill the cancer cells and leave the healthy cells alive. We focus on combinations because cancer is often difficult to target with just one drug and starting with a single drug can lead to resistant clones or relapse. We're building a highly automated lab in Foster City running on our custom software and are currently testing relapsed/refractory cancer patients as well as samples from a variety of pharma/biotech partnerships.
Notable Labs's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Notable Labs, Winter 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Notable Labs
Personalized drug discovery for blood cancer
We're building a platform that tests a patient's own cancer cells against combinations of FDA approved drugs to find treatments that kill the cancer and spare healthy cells. We focus on relapsed/refractory blood cancer and run a highly automated lab in Foster City with custom software. We help doctors and patients get personalized treatment options where standard therapies have failed.
We live in and operate out of Foster City, CA. After YC, the company will continue to be based there.
Our lab and team are local to Foster City, and it's where we're scaling our automation and working directly on testing patient samples and pharma partnerships. We have the specialized instruments and setup here that can't be moved easily.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Notable Labs YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Notable Labs's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Notable Labs would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Notable Labs in?
Notable Labs was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2015 batch.
Who founded Notable Labs?
Notable Labs was founded by Matthew De Silva, Pete Quinzio.
What does Notable Labs do?
Personalized drug discovery for blood cancer.
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
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