Numerion Labs

Numerion Labs YC Application

Winter 2015Active

Numerion 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
HealthcareDrug Discovery and Delivery
Team size
67
Status
Active
Launched
2014

Founders

  • Alex Levy
    Alex LevyFounder
  • Izhar Wallach
    Izhar WallachFounder

What Numerion Labs does

Numerion Labs is an AI-native company accelerating the discovery of life-saving medicines through the development and use of cutting-edge machine learning algorithms. The company unites computational chemistry, structural biology, and medicinal chemistry to pioneer the next generation of AI-driven drug discovery platforms.

Numerion Labs's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Numerion Labs, Winter 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

  1. Founders2
  2. Company7
  3. Progress7
  4. Idea4
  5. Equity3
  6. Curious2
  7. Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Numerion Labs

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Artificial intelligence for drug discovery.

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

We build AI-native drug discovery platforms that combine computational chemistry, structural biology, and medicinal chemistry. Our platform uses machine learning to predict and optimize molecules for new medicines, speeding up the search for drugs, especially in oncology.

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

We are based in San Francisco, CA, USA, and will remain here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We choose San Francisco because of the strong biotech and AI tech communities, access to talent, and proximity to pharmaceutical collaborators.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Numerion Labs YC application?

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

What YC batch was Numerion Labs in?

Numerion Labs was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2015 batch.

Who founded Numerion Labs?

Numerion Labs was founded by Alex Levy, Izhar Wallach.

What does Numerion Labs do?

Artificial intelligence for drug discovery.

How do I read the full reconstructed application?

Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Numerion Labs's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.

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