Transcriptic YC Application
Transcriptic went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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
- Winter 2015
- Industry
- HealthcareHealthcare Services
- Team size
- 13
- Status
- Inactive
- Launched
- 2014
Founders
Max HodakFounder/CEO
What Transcriptic does
Founded in 2012, Transcriptic has developed the first robotic cloud lab platform for on-demand life science research. It’s powered by the Transcriptic Common Lab Environment (TCLE) a scalable, digital infrastructure that integrates laboratory processes, instruments and IoT technologies into a single user interface. Researchers can carry out scalable, reproducible and rapid experimentation from anywhere in the world. Top ten pharmaceutical companies, as well as emerging biotech companies, are using the platform to gain more reproducibility and flexibility in the design and control of their experiments. By leveraging cloud-based technologies, users can access the power of a fully automated laboratory - whether in their own labs through an on-premise deployment of TCLE or through Transcriptic’s Bioassays services - all through a simple web-based interface. Transcriptic is transforming drug discovery and synthetic biology research by helping scientists focus on accelerating discoveries instead of labor-intensive bench work.
Transcriptic's YC application, reconstructed
Y Combinator application
Transcriptic, Winter 2015 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Transcriptic
The robotic cloud laboratory for life sciences
We built the Transcriptic Common Lab Environment, a cloud platform that connects laboratory instruments and automates life science experiments remotely. Researchers can design and run experiments through a web interface without manual bench work. This enables faster and more reproducible experimentation for pharmaceutical and biotech labs.
We live and work in Menlo Park, CA, and we plan to keep the company based here after YC.
Menlo Park is where we've built our lab and infrastructure. It's close to our initial customers in pharma and biotech, plus the talent and ecosystem we need to build both robotics hardware and software.
21 more answers in the full application
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this the real Transcriptic YC application?
No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Transcriptic's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Transcriptic would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.
What YC batch was Transcriptic in?
Transcriptic was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2015 batch.
Who founded Transcriptic?
Transcriptic was founded by Max Hodak.
What does Transcriptic do?
The robotic cloud laboratory for the life sciences.
How do I read the full reconstructed application?
Create a free Round Funded account. The full 26-answer version of Transcriptic's application, and every other YC batch, is in YC Insights.
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