Pair Team

Pair Team YC Application

Summer 2019Active

Pair Team went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2019 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
Summer 2019
Industry
HealthcareHealthcare Services
Team size
500
Status
Active
Launched
2019

Founders

  • Neil Batlivala
    Neil BatlivalaFounder
  • Cassie Choi
    Cassie ChoiFounder

What Pair Team does

Pair Team is building a new kind of healthcare system across Medicaid, Medicare, and public assistance programs: one that recognizes that access to housing, nutritious food, and reliable transportation are just as critical to health as having the right medications or seeing a doctor. We run one of the largest medical groups for complex, low income patients and our next chapter is building a vertically integrated AI care manager to support any clinical, behavioral, or social need for everyone.

Pair Team's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Pair Team, Summer 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

  1. Founders2
  2. Company7
  3. Progress7
  4. Idea4
  5. Equity3
  6. Curious2
  7. Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Pair Team

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Building the safety net of the future

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

We run a medical group that serves complex, low-income patients on Medicaid, Medicare, and public assistance. Our product is a vertically integrated AI care manager that supports clinical, behavioral, and social needs like housing and transportation, which are critical to health but often overlooked. The system helps care teams coordinate and manage these overlapping factors for each patient.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA and plan to keep the company based here with a remote-friendly model.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco gives us access to AI talent and healthcare innovation. Remote work lets us tap expertise nationwide, which is critical for scaling a complex healthcare service focused on low-income populations.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Pair Team YC application?

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

What YC batch was Pair Team in?

Pair Team was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2019 batch.

Who founded Pair Team?

Pair Team was founded by Neil Batlivala, Cassie Choi.

What does Pair Team do?

Building the safety net of the future

How do I read the full reconstructed application?

Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Pair Team's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.

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