Nutrigene YC Application

Winter 2018Inactive

Nutrigene went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2018 batch as a Consumer 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 2018
Industry: ConsumerFood and Beverage
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2017

Founders

Min FitzGeraldFounder

What Nutrigene does

Our mission is to optimize health and prevent nutrition-related disease, which affects over half of the world’s population. Current supplement solutions are ineffective and inconvenient. Dried pills lack potency while liquid vitamins quickly degrade - neither form gives your body specifically what it needs to perform. Nutrigene helps you optimize your health - by sending you pure, personalized liquid supplements. Pick a goal, fill out our metabolic assessment, and we will optimize your supplements based on scientific research to create unique formulations are 10x more effective than generic off the shelf pill-based formulations.

Nutrigene's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Nutrigene, Winter 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Nutrigene

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Personalized liquid supplements based on health data

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

We make personalized liquid supplements tailored to each customer's metabolic profile. Customers pick a health goal, complete our metabolic assessment, and we send them custom formulas based on scientific research. Our supplements are 10x more effective than generic pills because they deliver nutrients in a potent liquid form designed specifically for their needs.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA and the company would be based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We live in San Francisco because it's where the startup ecosystem, health tech community, and our initial customers are. This makes recruiting and iterating faster.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Nutrigene YC application?

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