TetraScience YC Application

Summer 2015Active

TetraScience went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2015
Industry: HealthcareHealthcare IT
Team size: 100
Status: Active
Launched: 2015

Founders

Siping WangFounder/CTO

What TetraScience does

TetraScience provides the world’s first and only R&D Data Cloud, with a mission to transform life sciences R&D, accelerate discovery, and improve human life. Scientists at global pharma and biotech organizations rely on our innovative Tetra Data Platform for easy access to centralized, harmonized, and actionable scientific data to accelerate their digital lab transformation. With best-in-class SaaS performance, a team of industry innovators, and excellent product/market fit, Tetra is positioned to become an iconic life sciences software company.

TetraScience's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

TetraScience, Summer 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

TetraScience

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The only R&D data cloud for life sciences

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

We are building the Tetra Data Platform, the first unified SaaS platform that centralizes and harmonizes disparate scientific R&D data for pharma and biotech companies. Our platform transforms fragmented lab and experiment data into actionable insights, helping scientists accelerate drug discovery and digital lab transformation.

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

We live in Boston, Massachusetts, and the company will remain based here after YC, with a remote-friendly team.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Boston puts us close to many pharma and biotech companies, our early customers and partners. It's a hub for life sciences and data engineering talent, which helps us recruit and stay connected to the industry.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real TetraScience YC application?

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