Quadrant Eye YC Application

Winter 2021Inactive

Quadrant Eye went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 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 2021
Industry: HealthcareMedical Devices
Team size: 4
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2021

Founders

Quinn Wang MDFounder
Kristine HaraFounder

What Quadrant Eye does

Quadrant Eye is on a mission to improve eyecare access and fight preventable blindness. We're building the next generation eye exam... inside the average American home. Our team wants to enable patients' best and most visually rich lives. To this end, we're looking for curious and nimble minds to help us develop the world's first fully online eye exam and ultimately deliver high-quality eyecare at scale. Some QE highlights: 🐝 We're a team of surgeons, scientists, venture partners, and hackers who mean business. 💸 Our backers include Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, and the creator of Google Image Search. 🍥 We're a mission-driven company tackling an eye health market worth $USD137B. 🌟 Our core focus is currently the development of patentable deep tech, and our overall vision is to change eyecare for good.

Quadrant Eye's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Quadrant Eye, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Quadrant Eye

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Breaking new ground in online eyecare.

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

We're building the world's first fully online eye exam that patients can take at home. It uses patentable deep tech and AI to assess vision and eye health without needing a clinic visit.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco offers access to top talent in AI and digital health, plus proximity to investors and partners relevant to medical devices and telemedicine.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Quadrant Eye YC application?

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