Equator Therapeutics YC 지원서

Winter 2020Active

Equator Therapeutics은(는) Winter 2020 배치에서 Healthcare 회사로 Y Combinator를 거쳤습니다. 아래에는 회사의 사업 내용, 창립자, 그리고 실제 YC 양식에 맞춰 재구성한 YC 지원서가 있습니다.

YC 배치: Winter 2020
산업: HealthcareTherapeutics
팀 규모: 2
상태: Active
출시됨: 2020

창업자

Liliya KhasinFounder
Yuriy KirichokFounder
Jonah SinickFounder

Equator Therapeutics의 사업 내용

We are developing a drug to increase metabolism and burn calories without exercise. Obesity and type 2 diabetes have reached epidemic proportions. There are 2.2B overweight people and 500M people with type 2 diabetes worldwide, and these numbers increase drastically every year. Existing drugs are not effective enough to reverse the trend. Our drug can solve this problem, because it addresses the root cause of metabolic disorders - the imbalance between caloric intake and expenditure. Our drug will target mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - to generate heat. This approach has been proven to fully reverse obesity and type 2 diabetes in animals. However, therapeutic application for humans was impossible, because mitochondrial heat production could only be induced by highly artificial methods with side effects. This changed after our recent breakthrough discovery of the protein that mitochondria naturally use to generate heat. We have developed a unique high-throughput drug discovery platform to identify compounds that selectively activate this target protein, without side effects. For decades people have wanted a drug that burns calories like exercise does. We are realizing this dream at Equator Therapeutics.

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Equator Therapeutics, Winter 2020 기수. 공개 데이터를 기반으로 작성된 실제 지원 질문.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Equator Therapeutics

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Drug to burn calories and increase metabolism

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

We are developing a drug that activates a natural protein in mitochondria to generate heat, burning calories and increasing metabolism without exercise. Our approach targets the root cause of obesity and type 2 diabetes by shifting the balance between calorie intake and expenditure through mitochondrial heat production, overcoming the side effects of previous methods.

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

We live in San Francisco and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where the team already lives and works, giving us access to biotech talent and resources critical for developing a therapeutic drug.

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아닙니다. Y Combinator는 제출된 지원서를 비공개로 유지합니다. 이것은 재구성된 것입니다. 실제 YC 양식 질문에 Equator Therapeutics의 공개 데이터(출시 노트, 창업자 배경, 제품 설명)를 기반으로 답변했습니다. Equator Therapeutics과 같은 회사가 YC에 어떻게 자신을 소개하는지 보여주며, 그들이 제출한 텍스트는 아닙니다.