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YC Alumni Lightning Round


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·Nov 5, 2024

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All right, guys. We uh, we got a break coming up but just a few words in closing, okay? Before we hear from some amazing alumni and then head to our um, happy hour on the roof.

Today, we were lucky enough to hear from some of the very best VCs in the valley. Thank you guys for that great conversation. We were able to hear what strategics look for in startups, and we heard some incredible founder journeys. I really, really hope that if any of you were sort of on the fence about starting a company, that at a minimum, you'll reach out to me at serbia@ycombinator.com so we can discuss it further.

I hope that today you're inspired to take the leap of faith to build something people need. Thank you so much for being here.

Mr. B, okay, for this very last session, you're going to get to meet some of the alumni we have here in the audience. So while uh, we have about 20 alumni who are here today who are going to introduce themselves briefly on stage, they'll have just 30 seconds or less. It’s like a mini demo day almost.

While we didn’t have time to have every single alumni in the audience, I think Serbia and Jared mentioned there are about 100 alumni here today. All alumni who are here have a purple badge. So, when you’re at the happy hour upstairs, take a look at everyone's badges, and if they're purple, please feel free to introduce yourselves to them.

I’m sure they’re happy to talk about what they're building. If you have questions about their YC journey, about you know, starting, you know, if you need some advice on starting a company, I'm sure they'd be happy to chat with you.

So, alumni, if I emailed you, please make your way to the right of the stage, and we will pass the mic down the line. Each alumni who comes up here will share their name, their two-sentence quick, you know, YC pitch, their description, and a one-sentence bio that talks about what they were doing prior to starting their company.

All right, so let's have the alumni get started. Let’s get started with Reshma.

All right, hi everyone! I'm Reshma, and I'm a 10-year member of the YC community as part of winter '13, a visiting group partner, and now I'm here repping summer '22 with my company, Medplum.

So Medplum makes an open-source app building kit for life sciences and healthcare. As you folks in the audience might think of us as your help desk. We're really great at integrating with lots of systems, and we are open source. I'll leave you with three parting thoughts: Medplum, open source, we can save you many, many years of engineering time.

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Hi everyone! My name is Orianna, and I'm the CEO and co-founder of AOA. At AOA, we are developing the first blood test for the early detection of ovarian cancer so that we can quickly and accurately catch the disease at the onset of symptoms.

Today, it takes about nine months and a very invasive surgery to diagnose ovarian cancer, which leads to about 80 percent of cases being caught when it's already stage three and four, and often that's too late. My background, I've been in the diagnostic space for the last decade, working at two previous women's health startups with both of my co-founders. So either we're good friends or crazy for doing this again, and our essential mission has been to bring to market diagnostics, with our last two startups going on to successful exits. Thank you.

Hi everyone! I'm Marco Loba, CEO of Katena Biosciences. At Katena, we're doing for proteins what Ginkgo did for cells. We turn peptides and whole proteins into modular building blocks that we can attach to antibodies and cell surfaces using only native amino acids.

We've got two partnerships going on that we're starting to develop with major Pharma, and I did my PhD at UC Berkeley in the labs of Matt Francis and Jennifer Doudna, where I discovered the technology behind Katena. Thank you all so much.

Hello everyone! I'm Patricia Bubna, and at our billion, we make meat. We make lab-grown meat or cell-cultured meat - the most delicious meat you've ever eaten. We start with Wagyu beef, and we just recently partnered...

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