Sayana YC Application

Winter 2020Acquired

Sayana went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2020 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 2020
Industry: HealthcareConsumer Health and Wellness
Team size: 2
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2020

Founders

Alex BaranovFounder
Sergey FayferFounder

What Sayana does

Sayana is a mental wellness app that helps people track their thoughts and feelings daily, get relevant tips on how to cope with emotions, and match with people in a similar life situation.

Sayana's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Sayana, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Sayana

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Affordable mental self-care for all.

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

We built a mental wellness app that helps users track their thoughts and feelings daily, provides tailored tips to cope with emotions, and matches them with others facing similar life situations. It's for anyone needing accessible, affordable mental self-care without the blockers of traditional therapy.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company is based here as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and where the startup resources and talent are concentrated, so it made sense to build and base Sayana here.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Sayana YC application?

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