Raycaster YC Application

Fall 2024Active

Raycaster went through Y Combinator in the Fall 2024 batch as a B2B 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 2024
Industry: B2BProductivity
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Levi LianFounder

What Raycaster does

Raycaster is an AI document workspace - think Cursor for regulated content, starting with life sciences teams to draft, edit, and review submissions much faster.

Raycaster's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Raycaster, Fall 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Raycaster

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI for life sciences documents

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

We're building an AI document workspace tailored for life sciences teams. It helps scientists, regulatory writers, and reviewers draft, edit, and review submissions faster, handling the complexity and compliance requirements of regulated content. Think of it as Cursor but built specifically for the workflows and constraints of life sciences documentation.

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

We live in New York, NY, and the company is based here. After YC, we will continue to be based in New York.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is where we understand the life sciences ecosystem best and where we have our initial users and network. It's important for us to be close to the teams who need this product, rather than relocate to Silicon Valley.

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 Raycaster YC application?

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