Play Health YC Application

Fall 2025Active

Play Health went through Y Combinator in the Fall 2025 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: Fall 2025
Industry: Healthcare
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

What Play Health does

Play Health is building a perimenopause care platform to provide women and their providers with the tools they need to relieve symptoms fast. It is led by technical, second-time, YC-backed founders Andrea Mazzocchi, PhD and Ian Miller, with an exit and a unicorn between them. Over 30 million women in the U.S. are experiencing perimenopause symptoms, spending an estimated $15B+ annually on symptom management. Despite this most only receive generic solutions and struggle to find effective symptom relief. We're bringing evidence-based perimenopause care to women through partnerships with medical practices and employer and health benefits programs. Our platform integrates personalized symptom, medication, and lifestyle data to generate AI-powered insights and clinical protocols, enabling providers to deliver specialized care. Every clinical interaction enriches our longitudinal dataset allowing us to create better outcomes for patients, deeper insights for providers, and expand into women’s health broadly. This also enables us to partner with pharma and biotech companies developing therapeutics and diagnostics for women's health.

Play Health's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Play Health, Fall 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Play Health

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Perimenopause Care Platform

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

We're building a platform that helps women experiencing perimenopause and their healthcare providers manage symptoms more effectively. The product gathers personalized symptom, medication, and lifestyle data, then uses AI to generate clinical protocols and insights, enabling providers to deliver targeted care rather than generic advice.

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

We live in Boulder, CO, and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Boulder has a strong healthcare and biotech community with the technical talent we need. It lets us work closely with providers and local partners while maintaining flexibility post-YC.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Play Health YC application?

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