I am thrilled to announce our funding and acceptance into the Y Combinator Winter 21 batch.
Y Combinator (YC) is a silicon-valley based startup accelerator, that has funded over 3000 startups, currently having a combined valuation of over $300B. AirBnB, DoorDash, Stripe, Instacart & Ginkgo Bioworks are some of the unicorns that were a part of the YC program. YC has programs, resources and is a community that support founders throughout the life of the company.
Zealth is building a software to help hospitals provide round the clock monitoring to their chronic outpatients once they leave the hospital and get real time alert if the patient is at high risk. Using Zealth’s software, patients receive personalised instructions enabling them to be in more control of their disease.
Three months into the program – YC has changed the way we thought about building Zealth to be a successful startup.
- First being continuous reinforcement on customer obsession, i.e. making sure the users of our product are happier than before. With all the congratulations flowing in from friends and family, post our acceptance into YC – there was a false tendency to feel that we are sprinting in the right direction – however, the first thing we learnt at YC was that nothing changed from a customer’s perspective. The number of users that loved our product was the same before and after being funded by YC. This, along with the ambitious targets set for Zealth, made sure we put our heads down and work rigorously towards making sure more doctors and patients loved our product.
- The large community of helpful founders from 3K startups across almost every country across the globe made sure we had access to expert opinions to almost every problem we faced while building the product. This, along with the deals YC gave us access, made sure we iterate and build faster.
- Having heard only the positive sides of successful startups such as AirBnB, Stripe, Superhuman, Dropbox & GitLab before. It was encouraging to hear the downs along with the ups these startups had to go through before making it big!
With 7 days left for demo day. We are geared up & thankful to our group partners – Jared Friedman, Tim Brady and Surbhi Sarna for all their advice and encouragement while going through the program. A huge thank you to the entire community for being supportive for each and every time we had an unanswered question in our minds. And last but not the least a huge shout out to the entire team of Zealth for holding the pressure of ambitious targets set for ourselves.
To know more about Zealth – reach out to us via the contact form or email to hello@zealth-ai.com
Thank you!