Theora YC Application

Summer 2025Active

Theora went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2025 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 2025
Industry: B2BAnalytics
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Larissa TyagiFounder

What Theora does

Ensuring every approved drug reaches patients who need it. Auditable AI to satisfy regulators and payors 10x faster. We Synthesize fragmented pharma and device data to prove safety, optimize market access, and anticipate regulatory response. Members of our team worked in software engineering at Apple and AI at NVIDIA, helped start a large-cap pharma clinical trial, and trained at Harvard Medical School.

Theora's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Theora, Summer 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Theora

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

OpenEvidence for Pharmaceutical Evidence

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

We're building a platform that synthesizes fragmented pharmaceutical and medical device data to prove drug safety, optimize how drugs reach the market, and anticipate regulatory decisions. Our product provides auditable AI that regulators and payors can trust, speeding up approvals and market access.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep Theora based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our small team currently lives and works. It's also close to biotech and pharma hubs, which helps us stay connected to potential users and industry partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Theora YC application?

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