Spire Health

Spire Health YC Application

Winter 2015Acquired

Spire Health went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2015 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 2015
Industry
HealthcareConsumer Health and Wellness
Team size
52
Status
Acquired
Launched
2014

Founders

  • Neema Moraveji
    Neema MoravejiFounder/Chief Scientist

What Spire Health does

We are a B2B medical device and data company passionate about providing remote monitoring solutions for the proactive care of chronic disease patients. Our core expertise and IP is in continuous respiratory sensing. Spire Remote Patient Monitoring is used by pulmonologists and patients throughout the United States. To date our sensors have been worn by more than 150,000 people.

Spire Health's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Spire Health, Winter 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

  1. Founders2
  2. Company7
  3. Progress7
  4. Idea4
  5. Equity3
  6. Curious2
  7. Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Spire Health

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Remote patient monitoring for lung disease patients.

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

We build medical devices and software that continuously monitor respiratory activity. Our product enables pulmonologists and their patients to track lung health remotely. The device collects continuous data outside the clinic, helping providers manage chronic lung diseases proactively.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, and the company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the right talent pool for medical device hardware and software, and it keeps us close to early customers and clinical partners.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Spire Health YC application?

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

What YC batch was Spire Health in?

Spire Health was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2015 batch.

Who founded Spire Health?

Spire Health was founded by Neema Moraveji.

What does Spire Health do?

Remote patient monitoring for lung disease patients.

How do I read the full reconstructed application?

Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Spire Health's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.

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