Shift Health YC Application

Summer 2019Active

Shift Health 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: HealthcareHealthcare Services
Team size: 6
Status: Active
Launched: 2019

Founders

Lance RodelaFounder

What Shift Health does

We help large provider groups and hospitals take their most mundane repetitive tasks and turn them into automated workflows. Freeing up healthcare workers to focus on the important stuff, like patients

Shift Health's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Shift Health, Summer 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Shift Health

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Turn manual healthcare process into automated workflows

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

We build software that automates repetitive, manual tasks for large healthcare provider groups and hospitals. Our product turns mundane daily workflows - like paperwork and data entry - into automated processes so healthcare workers can focus on patient care.

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

We live in Lehi, Utah, and Shift Health will be based here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Lehi has a growing tech community and is where we as founders live and work now. Staying here keeps our team close and maintains our current momentum.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Shift Health YC application?

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