Slingshot YC Application

Summer 2022Acquired

Slingshot went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2022 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 2022
Industry: Healthcare
Team size: 4
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2022

Founders

Zoe HoldernessFounder

What Slingshot does

Slingshot is AI that analyzes medical records to determine if the diagnosis is supported by the clinical evidence. The company is founded by Pranov Duggasani, a former Google and Microsoft AI engineer, and Zoe Holderness, a former Lyft and Tesla engineer. They started working on Slingshot after facing their own frustrations with inflated and erroneous medical bills with the goal to save patients more money with less work.

Slingshot's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Slingshot, Summer 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Slingshot

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Analyze medical records in seconds

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

We built AI that reads medical records and checks if the diagnosis matches the clinical evidence. This helps reduce inflated or erroneous bills by automating what normally takes hours of expert review.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we are now and where our network is. It's a tech and healthcare hub, so it makes sense to stay put and build here.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Slingshot YC application?

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