SimplyInsured YC Application
SimplyInsured went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2013 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 2013
- Industry
- HealthcareHealthcare Services
- Team size
- 35
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2012
Founders
Vivek ShahFounder
What SimplyInsured does
SimplyInsured was founded with one mission: to eliminate fear from health insurance. By changing the way small business owners purchase health insurance with our 100% online platform, we’re transforming a $20 billion dollar industry and delighting thousands of customers. Our unique values-based culture (and extremely talented team) is our core competitive advantage, and each person on our team makes a direct, immediate impact on our business. We value transparency, feedback, bias to action, growth, and an obligation to dissent. Every opinion is respected, we hold each other to extremely high standards, we’re driven by the diversity in our backgrounds, and unified by 100% alignment on our mission. What’s best for the customer is the heart of everything we do, and our customer stories prove it: by changing health insurance we’re literally saving lives. Based in San Francisco, SimplyInsured was founded in 2012 and is back by Bessemer Venture Partners, Polaris Ventures, and Y-Combinator. If you’re up for the challenge of improving health insurance for millions of Americans, we’re just getting started, and we’re growing!
SimplyInsured's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
SimplyInsured, Winter 2013 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
SimplyInsured
We sell health insurance to small businesses online.
We built an online platform that lets small business owners shop for, compare, and purchase health insurance completely online. Our product simplifies the historically complex and opaque process by giving transparent pricing and options tailored to small companies, eliminating the fear and hassle of insurance buying.
We live and are based in San Francisco, California, and after YC we plan to stay here.
San Francisco is where we found our early customers and built our team. The talent and startup ecosystem here supports our growth and lets us attract people who care about fixing healthcare insurance for small businesses.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real SimplyInsured YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from SimplyInsured's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like SimplyInsured would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was SimplyInsured in?
SimplyInsured was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2013 batch.
Who founded SimplyInsured?
SimplyInsured was founded by Vivek Shah.
What does SimplyInsured do?
We sell health insurance to small businesses 100% online.
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of SimplyInsured's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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