Over 20,000 founders applied to Y Combinator's Winter 2023 cohort. We analyze the 20 healthcare companies that made the cut.
Y Combinator (YC) is an early-stage startup accelerator that has invested in over 4,000 companies including Airbnb, Stripe, and Reddit.
Within the digital health space, YC has backed nearly 300 companies. Altogether, YC-backed digital health companies have raised approximately $5B in pre-exit funding.
Y Combinator’s most recent cohort (its Winter 2023 batch) included over 270 companies, with roughly 7% (20) operating in healthcare.
Using CB Insights data, we analyzed these 20 healthcare bets and mapped them across categories like drug R&D, care delivery & navigation tech, health insurance & RCM tech, and more.
