Perception Biosystems YC Application
Perception Biosystems went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2018 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 2018
- Industry
- HealthcareTherapeutics
- Team size
- 2
- Status
- Inactive
- Launched
- 2018
Founders
Omid KarkoutiFounder
What Perception Biosystems does
Perception Biosystems is democratizing gene therapy through lab automation. Our mission is to accelerate the clinical translation of gene therapy by reinventing its manufacturing and development processes. We're building a robotic lab in the SF Bay Area to translate the large facilities, labor, and regulatory requirements of current gene therapy factories into automated flexible manufacturing systems and code. This enables us to produce gene therapies for use in human clinical trials an order of magnitude faster and cheaper than the current solution - opening up thousands of rare disease targets otherwise thought too rare to pursue.
Perception Biosystems's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Perception Biosystems, Summer 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Perception Biosystems
Automating gene therapy manufacturing and development
We're building a robotic lab system that automates the manufacturing and development of gene therapies. Our product replaces large factories with flexible, automated hardware and code to produce gene therapies faster and cheaper, enabling clinical trials that weren't feasible before.
We currently live in Palo Alto, CA, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.
Palo Alto positions us close to biotech talent and early users in the Bay Area; it also makes hardware development and lab automation easier given local resources.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Perception Biosystems YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Perception Biosystems's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Perception Biosystems would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Perception Biosystems in?
Perception Biosystems was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2018 batch.
Who founded Perception Biosystems?
Perception Biosystems was founded by Omid Karkouti.
What does Perception Biosystems do?
Democratizing gene therapy by reinventing its manufacturing and…
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
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