Novelcare YC Application

Winter 2023Active

Novelcare went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2023 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 2023
Industry: HealthcareDrug Discovery and Delivery
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Ethan BondFounder
Jason MarmonFounder

What Novelcare does

Novelcare addresses the primary bottleneck in drug development: recruiting patients into clinical trials. We analyze electronic health records to help doctors find clinical trials for their patients, and to help trial sites find patients for their studies. 72% of doctors want to inform their patients of clinical trials, but only 5% do. We're on a mission to close that gap, ultimately bringing safer, more effective drugs to the patients who need them.

Novelcare's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Novelcare, Winter 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Novelcare

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Connecting doctors and patients to clinical trials

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

We built a platform that analyzes electronic health records to help doctors find clinical trials their patients qualify for, and to help trial sites recruit eligible patients. This tackles the biggest bottleneck in drug development: patient recruitment for trials.

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

We live in New York, NY, and the company is based there with remote team members.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is where our team is located and where much of the healthcare industry and clinical research infrastructure is accessible. We also operate remotely to tap talent beyond the city.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Novelcare YC application?

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