Recover YC Application

Winter 2021Active

Recover 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: HealthcareConsumer Health and Wellness
Team size: 10
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Nick GulinoFounder and CEO

What Recover does

Recover provides more effective and affordable addiction treatment via telemedicine. We partner with local governments to save lives and taxpayer dollars. More than 20 million Americans struggle with addiction, but less than 10% of people who need it receive treatment. For those that do, it usually does not work - only 8% get better. Most of this treatment is funded by governments, and goes to programs that are frequently predatory, and focus more on profit than people. We have created an effective, accessible, and affordable solution: Recover. We offer a proven approach using medication and counseling, that can improve outcomes for over 70% of patients. It reduces overdoses by 80%, death by 50%, and has years of research and application showing it works. Despite how effective this medication can be, most rehabs do not have medical professionals on staff. Not only does our program work better and bring medicine to addiction care, it also costs just 10% of traditional programs. Nick founded Recover after seeing his family and friends struggle with addiction. He was raised by a drug addict, has an alcoholic brother, and lost an uncle to heroin. He saw how hard it is for people to get the treatment they need, and how ineffective existing options are. We are working to make sure that people like Nick’s family have access to best-in-class addiction treatment so they can get and stay well.

Recover's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Recover

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Government-funded online addiction treatment

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

Recover is a telemedicine platform that provides addiction treatment funded by local governments. We combine medication and counseling to improve patient outcomes, reduce overdoses and deaths, and lower costs compared to traditional rehab programs.

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

We live in San Diego, California. After YC, we plan to keep the company based in San Diego.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in San Diego because that's where the founders live and have access to local government partnerships crucial for our model.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Recover YC application?

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