Talc YC Application

Summer 2023Active

Talc went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 batch as a B2B 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: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Matt LeeFounder
Max KerrFounder

What Talc does

Talc helps hospitals pull events and data out of messy EHRs.

Talc's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Talc

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Event extraction for Medical Researchers

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

We build software that pulls structured events and relevant data out of messy electronic health records for hospitals. Our tool helps medical researchers get clean, usable data without manual chart review or unreliable code-based extraction.

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

We live in Seattle, WA, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Seattle has a strong engineering talent pool and is where both Matt and Max live and work. Staying local helps us build efficiently as a small team focused on solving a specific, technical problem.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Talc YC application?

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