Ochre Bio YC Application

Winter 2020Active

Ochre Bio went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2020 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 2020
Industry: HealthcareTherapeutics
Team size: 50
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Quin WillsFounder/CSO

What Ochre Bio does

Ochre Bio is a biotechnology company developing RNA medicines for chronic liver diseases.

Ochre Bio's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Ochre Bio, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Ochre Bio

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

RNA medicines for liver diseases

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

We create RNA-based medicines targeting chronic liver diseases. Our product uses RNA therapies to modulate gene expression specifically in the liver, aiming to address conditions where there are no effective treatments today.

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

We live in Oxford, England, United Kingdom and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Our deep expertise and initial research foundation are in Oxford, surrounded by leading biotech research and a growing life sciences community. Staying here gives us access to talent and resources critical to developing RNA therapies for liver diseases.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Ochre Bio YC application?

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