PlateJoy YC Application

Summer 2015Acquired

PlateJoy went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2015 batch as a Consumer 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 2015
Industry: ConsumerFood and Beverage
Team size: 11
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2015

Founders

Christina BognetFounder/CEO
Daniel NelsonFounder/CTO

What PlateJoy does

PlateJoy uses 50 data points about how you eat and live to determine what you should be eating and provides customized meal plans and shopping lists to help you reach your goals. We provide a digital Diabetes Prevention Program, available for free to over 60M covered lives, paid for by insurers.

PlateJoy's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

PlateJoy, Summer 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

PlateJoy

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Personalized meal plans for disease prevention

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

We build software that analyzes 50 different data points about a person's diet and lifestyle to create customized meal plans and shopping lists. Our product includes a digital Diabetes Prevention Program that insurers provide for free to millions of people at risk of diabetes.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team lives, and it gives us access to talent and healthcare partners critical for our product.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real PlateJoy YC application?

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