Tennr YC Application
Tennr went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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
- Winter 2023
- Industry
- B2B
- Team size
- 195
- Status
- Active
- Launched
- 2023
Founders
Trey HoltermanFounder
Diego BaughFounder
Tyler JohnsonFounder
What Tennr does
Tennr is solving the black hole problem in healthcare by leveraging models to digitize the flow of paperwork between healthcare providers. -- Today, when you go to your doctor and need to be referred to a specialist (e.g., for sleep apnea), your doctor sends a fax (yes, in 2024, 90% of provider-provider communication is a 1980s fax). These are often converted into 20+ page PDFs, with handwritten (doctor’s handwriting!) notes, in thousands of different formats. The problem is so complex that a person has to read it, type it up, and manually enter your information. Tennr built RaeLM™ (7B - trained on 3M+ documents) to read these docs, talk to your doc to ensure nothing is missed, and text you to help schedule your appointment so you can get better, faster.
Tennr's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Tennr, Winter 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Tennr
Fast, Transparent Patient Experiences
We built Tennr to fix how healthcare providers send referral paperwork. Our product, RaeLM™, is a 7B parameter model trained on over 3 million documents. It reads faxed, handwritten, and PDF documents from doctors to specialists, extracts the info, asks clarifying questions with the provider, and texts patients to help them schedule appointments faster.
We're based in New York, NY, and would stay here after YC.
We picked New York because it's where we live and where most of our healthcare provider customers operate. It's important to be close to the complex healthcare systems we're improving.
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 Tennr YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Tennr's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Tennr would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Tennr in?
Tennr was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2023 batch.
Who founded Tennr?
Tennr was founded by Trey Holterman, Diego Baugh, Tyler Johnson.
What does Tennr do?
Fast, Transparent Patient Experiences
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Tennr's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
