Volt Health YC Application

Winter 2017Inactive

Volt Health went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2017 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 2017
Industry: HealthcareMedical Devices
Team size: 1
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2016

Founders

Scott Wolf, MDFounder/Founding CEO

What Volt Health does

Volt is an electrostimulation wearable to treat diseases like incontinence. The founder has already taken six medical devices to market, including the Cool Sculpting device that sold for billions. Incontinence affects 25 million people and is a $25 billion market. The device stimulates the muscles to get them the give feedback to receptors. This helps those suffering from incontinence to not pee when they don’t want to. The device can also target other conditions like migraines and comes with proprietary technology.

Volt Health's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Volt Health, Winter 2017 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Volt Health

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Medical devices delivering electrical stimulation

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

We are building Volt, a wearable electrostimulation device that treats incontinence by stimulating muscles to engage receptors and improve control. It can also target conditions like migraines using proprietary technology.

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

We live and work in Mountain View, CA, and the company is based there post-YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in Mountain View places us at the heart of innovation and close to partners and suppliers critical for medical device development.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Volt Health YC application?

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