Stellar Sleep YC Application

Summer 2023Active

Stellar Sleep went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 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 2023
Industry: Healthcare
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

George WFounder
Edrei ChuaFounder

What Stellar Sleep does

25 million Americans with chronic insomnia are getting inadequate and superficial care advice (e.g. cutting coffee, meditation etc.), when in reality, their sleep problems are often driven by deeper psychological challenges like unresolved anxiety. Stellar Sleep uses psychology to help these people break the insomnia cycle.

Stellar Sleep's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Stellar Sleep, Summer 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Stellar Sleep

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Help people with chronic insomnia sleep better

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

We built a product that helps people with chronic insomnia by addressing the psychological root causes of their sleep problems, like unresolved anxiety. Instead of generic advice like "cut coffee," we use targeted psychology-based methods to help users break the insomnia cycle and get sustainable better sleep.

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

We live in Boston, MA, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Boston is home to our team and close to a strong healthcare and psychology ecosystem, which is important for our product development and user feedback.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Stellar Sleep YC application?

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