Valink Therapeutics YC Application

Winter 2021Active

Valink Therapeutics went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 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 2021
Industry: HealthcareTherapeutics
Team size: 15
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Arne ScheuFounder
Irsyad KhairilFounder

What Valink Therapeutics does

Valink Therapeutics develops next generation antibody-based therapeutics. We identify novel mechanism of action from known targets by incorporating multiple antibody modifications at once, rapidly and scalable generating complex drug candidates (bi-/multispecificity, multivalency and drug-conjugation in a single discovery process). Our research focus is on solid tumours poorly addressed by immunotherapy.

Valink Therapeutics's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Valink Therapeutics, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Valink Therapeutics

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Discovering bispecific antibody drug-conjugates against cancer

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

We're building a platform to discover bispecific antibody drug-conjugates (BsADCs) targeting solid tumors that current immunotherapies fail to address. Our approach combines multiple antibody modifications simultaneously - bi- and multispecificity, multivalency, and drug conjugation - within a single discovery process. This enables us to rapidly generate complex candidates with novel mechanisms of action.

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

We live and work in Boston, MA, and we plan to keep the company based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Boston is a top biotech hub with access to talent, labs, and partners critical to advancing antibody therapeutics. We want to be where the expertise and infrastructure are.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Valink Therapeutics YC application?

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