Pharos YC Application

Summer 2024Active

Pharos went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2024 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 2024
Industry: HealthcareHealthcare IT
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Felix BrannCo-founder & CEO
Matthew JonesFounder

What Pharos does

Pharos automates hospital quality reporting, saving millions in labour costs and helping to prevent avoidable patient harm. Today, clinicians spend thousands of hours manually pulling complex facts out of medical records for mandatory reporting and quality improvement. Our AI pulls those facts out of unstructured medical records automatically. We automate reporting and show staff where avoidable patient harm is happening.

Pharos's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Pharos, Summer 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Pharos

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Helping hospitals identify and prevent avoidable harm using AI

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

We build AI that automatically extracts complex facts from unstructured medical records. This automates hospital quality reporting, saving clinicians thousands of hours of manual work and highlighting where avoidable patient harm is occurring, so hospitals can intervene faster.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco gives us access to great engineering talent and proximity to healthcare tech hubs. It's where we live and work, so it's practical and efficient for us.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Pharos YC application?

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