Starling YC Application

Winter 2022Active

Starling went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2022
Industry: HealthcareDiagnostics
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Drew HendricksFounder
Hannah McKenneyFounder

What Starling does

Starling is building a urine diagnostic remote patient monitoring platform that seamlessly integrates into anyone's bathroom routine. By detecting early changes in a patient's urine using our toilet indwelling mass spectroscopy device, our platform is aiming to prevent hospitalizations from numerous conditions like recurrent UTIs, BPH exacerbations, or diabetes. We do this while creating significant new annual revenues for our clinician partners from remote patient monitoring reimbursements without requiring any significant changes in a staff's day to day schedule.

Starling's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Starling, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Starling

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI enabling digital urine diagnostics in-home

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

We're building a urine diagnostic remote patient monitoring platform centered on a toilet indwelling mass spectroscopy device. It analyzes patients' urine daily to detect early signs of issues like recurrent UTIs or diabetes complications before they require hospitalization, integrating into existing bathroom routines without burdening clinical staff.

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

We live and operate in Houston, TX. After YC, the company would remain based here to stay close to our initial clinical partners and manufacturing resources.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Houston offers access to key clinical networks and the medical device ecosystem we need, plus it's where our founding team lives and works. Staying local lets us move faster and remain close to our users.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Starling YC application?

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