Sequence Bio YC Application

Summer 2019Active

Sequence Bio went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2019 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: Summer 2019
Industry: HealthcareDrug Discovery and Delivery
Team size: 52
Status: Active
Launched: 2019

Founders

Jeremy GrushcowFounder
Chris GardnerFounder

What Sequence Bio does

90% of drug candidates fail, delaying help for those in need. We’re on a mission to change that. Better drug target discovery powered by the Newfoundland founder effect.

Sequence Bio's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Sequence Bio, Summer 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Sequence Bio

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Discovering true disease signals for drug targets

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

We build a platform that analyzes genetic data from the Newfoundland founder population to identify reliable drug targets. Our product helps pharmaceutical companies find targets backed by human genetics, reducing the high failure rate in drug development.

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

We live in St. John's, NL, Canada and the company is based there.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We stay in St. John's to leverage the rich genetic data unique to Newfoundland's founder effect, which is difficult to access elsewhere and crucial to our approach.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Sequence Bio YC application?

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