OpenBiome YC Application

Winter 2020Active

OpenBiome 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: 70
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Majdi OsmanFounder
Carolyn EdelsteinFounder

What OpenBiome does

We are a nonprofit stool bank, expanding safe access to fecal transplants and catalyzing research on the human microbiome.

OpenBiome's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

OpenBiome

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

A nonprofit stool bank enabling fecal transplants.

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

We operate the first large-scale stool bank that supplies screened, processed fecal material to clinicians treating patients with recurrent C. difficile infection. Our product is the stool transplant material, delivered safely and quickly. We also support research around the human microbiome by providing samples.

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

We live and work in Cambridge, MA, and would keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Cambridge is a biotech hub with access to research institutions and medical partners. Our founders live here and have built our network locally, so it makes sense to stay.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real OpenBiome YC application?

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