Sixfold Bioscience YC Application

Winter 2018Active

Sixfold Bioscience went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2018 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 2018
Industry: HealthcareDrug Discovery and Delivery
Team size: 27
Status: Active
Launched: 2017

Founders

George FootFounder
Anna Perdrix RosellFounder

What Sixfold Bioscience does

Sixfold is focused on the commercialisation of its patented drug delivery systems for RNA therapeutics such as siRNAs for gene silencing and mRNAs for gene expression.

Sixfold Bioscience's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Sixfold Bioscience, Winter 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Sixfold Bioscience

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Delivering RNA therapies

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

We're building drug delivery systems specialized for RNA therapeutics like siRNAs and mRNAs. Our platform improves how these molecules enter cells to enable gene silencing or expression, addressing a key bottleneck in RNA medicine.

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

We live in London, England, and the company is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

London offers deep life sciences expertise, access to biotech talent, and proximity to European partners and customers in healthcare and drug delivery.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Sixfold Bioscience YC application?

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