Perceptive Technologies YC Application

Winter 2020Active

Perceptive Technologies 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: HealthcareMedical Devices
Team size: 25
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Chris CirielloFounder
Scott PhillipsFounder

What Perceptive Technologies does

Stealth-mode, rapidly scaling, venture-backed startup at the vanguard of automated robotic surgery revolution -- just closed our Series A round. We are improving access to dental care in underserved populations by combining novel imaging technology with AI and surgical robotics to automate surgery in the $452B dental industry. We are bringing a new imaging modality to dentistry which can see inside teeth and below the gingiva all without the need for x-rays. AI is used to diagnose decay and plan treatment. Automated robotics reduces the time for surgery down to one minute, reducing patient discomfort and saving time and reducing cost for the dentist. YC 2020, Winner of the Forsyth DenTech 2021 CareCaptial award

Perceptive Technologies's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Perceptive Technologies

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Automated tooth cutting for dentists using AI robots

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

We're building an automated robotic system that uses a novel imaging technique to see inside teeth without x-rays. AI analyzes scans to diagnose decay and plan surgeries. Our robot then performs precise tooth cutting, reducing surgery time to about one minute. This speeds up dental surgeries, cuts discomfort for patients, and lowers costs for dentists, especially in underserved populations.

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

We live in Boston, MA, and the company is based here now and would remain here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are rooted in Boston because it has a strong healthcare and robotics ecosystem, which matches our product focus on medical robotics and dental surgery.

21 more answers in the full application

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Is this the real Perceptive Technologies YC application?

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