Ohmic Biosciences YC Application

Summer 2023Active

Ohmic Biosciences went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 batch as a Industrials 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: Summer 2023
Industry: IndustrialsAgriculture
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

PJ SteinerFounder
Matthew BedewitzFounder

What Ohmic Biosciences does

Pests and pathogens cost the world hundreds of billions of dollars every year. Existing technologies like agrochemicals are no longer working. Ohmic Biosciences uses protein engineering to design resistance genes for crops that are robust to pathogen evolution.

Ohmic Biosciences's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Ohmic Biosciences, Summer 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Ohmic Biosciences

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Genetically engineering plants for disease resistance.

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

We design resistance genes for crops using protein engineering to create plants that can withstand pests and pathogens. Our technology aims to make disease resistance durable against evolving pathogens, reducing reliance on agrochemicals.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to base the company here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we are based now and is where the biotech and synthetic biology ecosystem is strongest, making it the best place for us to grow.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Ohmic Biosciences YC application?

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