Watsi YC Application

Winter 2013Active

Watsi went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2013 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 2013
Industry: Healthcare
Team size: 11
Status: Active
Launched: 2013

Founders

Chase AdamFounder/CEO
Grace GareyFounder/Head of Operations

What Watsi does

We’re building technology to finance universal healthcare by crowdfunding surgeries and providing coverage for primary care.

Watsi's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Watsi, Winter 2013 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Watsi

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Global crowdfunding for medical care

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

We're building a platform that lets people around the world crowdfund medical treatments like surgeries and primary care. Patients get their healthcare funded through individual donations, making access possible where it otherwise isn't.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA and the company is based here and distributed remotely.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we all live and where the tech and funding ecosystem supports building a healthcare crowdfunding platform at scale. Remote work allows us to coordinate with partners globally.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Watsi YC application?

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