Origin YC Application

Winter 2026Active

Origin went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2026 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 2026
Industry: HealthcareDrug Discovery and Delivery
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Yash RathodFounder
Malhar BhideFounder

What Origin does

Creating the largest patient-derived cancer single-cell dataset for licensing to pharmaceutical and AI companies. These datasets are unique as they screen the effects of various drugs and genetic medicines under the control of our DNA switches.

Origin's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Origin, Winter 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Origin

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI and Data for Cancer Therapeutics

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

We create the largest patient-derived single-cell cancer dataset with detailed drug and genetic medicine screening under DNA switch control. Our product helps pharma and AI companies understand drug effects at a cellular level, speeding up therapeutic discovery with data they cannot generate themselves.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team is located and where many biotech and pharma companies are based, making it easier to collaborate, license data, and recruit specialized talent.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Origin YC application?

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