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The process was fairly vigorous and competitive, but our persistence paid off and we were accepted into the Y Combinator '14 batch. The experience itself was incredibly intense, as we were one of a few foreign, let alone hardware companies in our batch which made us work even harder to adapt to the different business mentality in Silicon Valley. Nonetheless, we successfully completed the program and moved on to fundraising on demo day. 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That number is going up. Access is getting easier, prices are falling, and the longevity research on low-dose GLP therapy is compelling enough that it's not hard to imagine most adults cycling on and off these medications eventually, not just for weight loss, but for metabolic health and lifespan.\n\nThere are plenty of places to buy Ozempic, but the monitoring and optimization infrastructure is not there yet. The biology of GLP therapy is more complicated than the weight loss headline suggests:\n\n🚫 **Muscle loss is hidden by the scale.** Fast weight loss often means lean mass loss, not just fat. Standard weight tracking can't tell the difference.\n\n🚫 **Side effects are downstream signals.** Fatigue, brain fog, hair shedding, and constipation aren't random — they're often markers of caloric under-fueling, nutrient depletion, or dehydration pressure that bloodwork would catch early.\n\n🚫 **Prescribers don't monitor the full picture.** Most GLP patients get minimal follow-up labs, if any. HbA1c, ApoB, ferritin, B12, testosterone, thyroid — none of these are standard-of-care during treatment.\n\n🚫 **Weight alone is a bad success metric.** Losing 24 lbs while losing 6 lbs of muscle and depleting your ferritin is not the same as losing 24 lbs of fat.\n\n# The Solution: A Monitoring Loop Built for GLP Therapy\n\nWe've served 50,000+ users with at-home blood testing. GLP users are a distinct population with distinct needs, so we built a product specifically for them. The SiPhox GLP Monitoring Panel connects labs, body composition, and symptom tracking into one continuous loop so you can see what the drug is actually doing to your biology and course-correct before small problems become bigger ones.\n\n---\n\n### 💡 What You Get\n\n**✅ 40+ Lab Markers — GLP-Specific Panel**\n\nNot a generic wellness panel. Built around the markers that matter when appetite, weight, hydration, and body composition are actively changing:\n\n* **Metabolism:** HbA1c, eAG, C-Peptide\n* **Lipids & heart:** ApoB, LDL, HDL, Triglycerides, hsCRP\n* **Liver:** ALT, AST, ALP, bilirubin, albumin\n* **Kidney & hydration:** BUN, creatinine, eGFR, BUN:Cr ratio\n* **Thyroid:** TSH, Free T4\n* **Hormones:** Testosterone (total + free + %), SHBG, cortisol\n* **Nutrition:** Vitamin D, B12, folate, ferritin, iron studies (Iron, UIBC, TIBC, Iron Saturation), total protein\n\n**✅ Painless At-Home Collection**\n\nCollected via our Easydraw arm patch, no venous draw, no finger prick, no lab visit. Mail it back, and the results appear in your dashboard.\n\n**✅ Body-Composition Scanning**\n\nIn-app scanner tracks fat loss vs. lean mass preservation between tests.\n\n**✅ GLP Tolerance Score**\n\nA composite score built from labs, body comp, and symptom check-ins. Tracks how well your body is handling therapy at each stage: baseline → titration → maintenance.\n\n**✅ Symptom & Side-Effect Tracking**\n\nTrack fatigue, brain fog, hair shedding, GI issues, and muscle soreness between tests. Connects subjective experience to objective lab data.\n\n**✅ Detailed Analysis & Personalized Insights**\n\nInterpret what's moving in the right direction, what deserves a conversation with your prescriber, and what to adjust in diet, training, or supplementation built around your specific results.\n\n🔗 **Start monitoring:** \n\n---\n\n---\n\n### 📈 Why Now?\n\nGLP drugs are the fastest-growing drug class in history. Next-gen peptides like retatrutide, orforglipron, cagrilintide are coming. The longevity use case is expanding the addressable population well beyond obesity treatment. And monitoring has not kept pace with any of it.\n\nMost patients are flying blind. Prescribers don't have the bandwidth for individualized follow-up. Labs are ordered inconsistently, if at all. No one is connecting weight, body composition, symptoms, and biomarkers in a single continuous view.\n\n\\_____________________________________________________________________\\_\n\n### 🏢 For Businesses: White-Label the GLP Monitoring\n\nRunning a GLP prescribing platform, a metabolic health clinic, a wellness app, or a supplement brand with a GLP-adjacent audience? You can white-label or co-brand the entire monitoring program.\n\n**What the partner program gives you:**\n\n✅ White-label or co-branded kit and dashboard under your brand\n\n✅ Full panel access + API integration for embedding results in your own product\n\n✅ Partner dashboard to track your clients' health journeys and customize next steps with real biomarker data\n\n✅ Pre/post protocol testing to prove efficacy and reduce churn\n\n✅ CLIA/CAP-accredited lab processing — same quality as traditional venous draws\n\n✅ Account management, biomarker interpretation training, and marketing support\n\nPatients are 3x more likely to stay engaged with a health program backed by real biomarker data.\n\n🔗 **Partner inquiry:** [siphoxhealth.com/partner](https://siphoxhealth.com/partner)\n\n\\_____________________________________________________________________\\_\n\n---\n\n### 🤝 For Health Coaches: Refer and Earn\n\nIf you work with people on GLP therapy as a health coach, personal trainer, or content creator, our affiliate program is built for you.\n\nNo cost to join. No hidden fees. Your referrals get a better monitoring product and better outcomes; you get a meaningful revenue stream.\n\n🔗 **Join the affiliate program:** [siphoxhealth.com/affiliate-program](https://siphoxhealth.com/affiliate-program)\n\n---\n\n\\_____________________________________________________________________\\_\n\n### About SiPhox Health\n\nSiPhox Health, backed by Khosla Ventures, Intel Capital, and Y Combinator, is a full-stack home blood testing company founded at MIT. We've tested 1M+ biomarkers across 50,000+ users. Our long-term mission is SiPhox Home — a silicon photonic chip that delivers instant blood test results from home. The GLP Monitoring Panel runs on our existing CLIA/CAP-accredited lab infrastructure and Easydraw arm collection patch.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Qel-siphox-health-glp-monitoring", "votes": 31, "created_at": "2026-06-03T00:19:59.999Z" }, { "id": 93544, "title": "SiPhox Health🩸Painless, At-Home Thyroid Testing", "tagline": "Test a comprehensive, lab-grade thyroid panel in minutes painlessly from home", "body": "### TL;DR\n\n**SiPhox Health is launching a first-of-its-kind at-home thyroid test.** Affordable, painless, comprehensive, and clinical-grade. Test as often as needed for $79/month—no lab visits required, results in minutes.\n\n**Join the waitlist here:** https://siphoxhealth.com/thyroid-waitlist\n\n## SiPhox Home: The Future of At-Home Thyroid Testing\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93544&key=user_uploads/520037/72114357-e921-4bf9-98a6-2f5ec4cc6dde)\n\n### About SiPhox\n\nWe are a **YC, Khosla Ventures, and Intel Capital-backed** startup empowering everyday people to test their blood biomarkers painlessly at home and live healthier, longer.\n\nSiPhox is the **highest-rated self-testing company** on the market. We have delivered **300k+ biomarker test results** to date with our innovative mail-in tests via the SiPhox DTC wellness testing service and enterprise white-label platform.\n\n### What’s New\n\nWe're launching a **waitlist** for our **comprehensive, clinical-grade at-home thyroid testing** platform. For **$79/month**, users can test TSH, Free T4, Free T3, TPOAb, TGAb, and TG\n\n**No needles, no labs**— just use our painless Easydraw arm collector patch, collect a small blood sample, and place it into the device.\n\n---\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=93544&key=user_uploads/520037/117e1cb8-f4af-48ec-b22f-e5f50b1c1216)\n\n### Why It Matters\n\n**The numbers:** \\~20M Americans are living with hypothyroidism, and more with subclinical hypothyroidism. 1M+ have had their thyroid removed (\\~40-50k new thyroid cancer cases each year).\n\n**Completely at-home:** no more travel, scheduling, or needle draws. Just a quick 5-10 minute sample collection vs. 2‑hour lab appointments.\n\n**Robust panel, affordable pricing**: deeper insight at a lower cost relative to traditional labs (\\~$150/test).\n\n**Seamless doctor integration**: sync results with your doctor easily, and manage across devices via our dashboard.\n\n**Telehealth support if you need it:** work with a SiPhox-affiliated telehealth support team to optimize your thyroid health.\n\n**All-in-one health dashboard:** track your results in a modern dashboard where you can connect your wearable devices, upload past test results from any lab, and chat with an in-context health coaching AI.\n\n**High accuracy, future-ready tech**: SiPhox leverages silicon photonics, the tech that powers datacenter optical communication chips, to miniaturize a lab-grade blood testing instrument and cut the cost 300x without compromising on performance.\n\n**See our R&D facility here:**\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvNqRBW-MKI&ab_channel=SiPhoxInternal\n\n### How to get access\n\n**Join the waitlist here:** https://siphoxhealth.com/thyroid-waitlist\n\nPartner with us: https://siphoxhealth.com/partner\n\n---\n\n---\n\n---\n\n### What’s Next\n\nAfter we receive FDA clearance for thyroid testing, we’ll be focusing on launching sex hormone panels, an advanced cardiac and inflammation panel (ApoB, hsCRP, etc.), and more. These will all be compatible with the same device.\n\nThe SiPhox Home can measure up to 20 proteins and hormones in a single cartridge.\n\n\\_________________________________________________________________\\_\n\n**_Fine print:_**\n\n\\-_The SiPhox Home device is currently only available for investigational use. Joining the waitlist ensures you are first in line to access the device once we receive our FDA clearance (expected 2026)_\n\n\\-_The SiPhox Home will only be available with a doctor’s prescription, either through SiPhox telehealth or through your preferred provider._\n\n---\n\n### ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OKm-siphox-health-painless-at-home-thyroid-testing", "votes": 39, "created_at": "2025-09-03T15:44:08.993Z" }, { "id": 90232, "title": "Sai: Cursor for Lab Test Results", "tagline": "Your free lab test and health optimization copilot ", "body": "**TLDR:**\n\n1. SiPhox, already the best option for home blood testing, is launching Sai, an AI lab test analyzer that lives directly in the SiPhox dashboard, just like the Cursor chat lives inside the IDE.\n2. You can use it with your SiPhox results or upload your own PDFs/screenshots of lab tests, they will be automatically parsed and added to the dashboard for discussion with Sai.\n3. Link here to try for free: https://siphoxhealth.com/try-sai\n\n> “AI will cure all diseases in the next 10 years.” – Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind (CBS 60 Minutes)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90232&key=user_uploads/520037/884209a7-485e-4a4f-8533-9904a6d38f8f)\n\nBig claim. Maybe _too_ big.\n\nSomething more practical: AI + friction-free diagnostics can wipe out **a significant portion of preventable disease** if we give people the right tools.\n\nThat’s exactly what we’re shipping an early version of **today**.\n\n---\n\n### **What’s new**\n\n# 1. **Cursor-style Copilot for Your Labs (Beta)**\n\nUpload any lab report—PDF, photo, whatever—and **Sai**, our GPT-powered assistant, appears as a cursor-style sidebar in your dashboard.\n\nAsk it anything:\n\n* “Why is my ApoB high if my LDL looks fine?”\n* “Show me habits that would drop my Trig/HDL under 2.”\n* “Review my last several years of test data to see if I might be developing perimenopause.”\n* “Generate a doctor-ready summary of my results.”\n\nOr **highlight any section** in your dashboard and click _Ask Sai_\n\nhttps://youtu.be/B7PZ3QvIEuI\n\n# 2. **Zero-friction At-Home Blood Testing**\n\n* Upper-arm collector (comfortable, collects the sample painlessly in a few minutes)\n* Industry-leading, up to **50 biomarkers** in a single kit\n* Overnight return shipping to lab for fast results.\n\n ![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90232&key=user_uploads/520037/c7d623a3-5648-489a-a0db-2d8b4b0e55d1)\n\n\n# 3. **Integrated Expert Review**\n\nEvery report is reviewed by health experts. Insights come from a proprietary database developed by SiPhox experts and clinical advisors based on years of longitudinal testing by thousands of users. You still get human nuance + the flexibility of discussing your results with Sai.\n\n# 4. **Free Biological-Age & Heart-Age Scores**\n\nBecause a comprehensive dashboard is nice, but **north-star metrics** make it easier to take action and track progress. We built these scores using proprietary models based on public datasets and years of SiPhox user data.\n\n# 5. **Open Uploads**\n\nNot ready to buy a kit? Start by dumping old Quest/Labcorp PDFs into the dashboard for **free**. We’ve had this feature available for a few months now, and uploads are growing exponentially.\n\n---\n\n### **One More Thing 🫀**\n\n# **Heart & Metabolic Program** (launched quietly six months ago, now public)\n\n* **Most complete at-home panel** for cardiometabolic risk (advanced lipids + insulin resistance markers).\n* **Phenotype scoring** that fuses glucose-metabolism and lipid data\n* American Heart Association risk score and SiPhox **Heart-Age** score so you (and your doctor) can see your heart health status at a glance.\n* Access to titrated **lipid-lowering medications** when needed via telemedicine\n* Full Sai access, of course.\n\n---\n\n### **Why We’re Doing This**\n\n* **Doctors are time-constrained**. They glance at your test results and say “looks normal” even though “normal” ranges are based on lack of active disease, not disease prevention\n* **Patients are guessing**. Reddit threads and WebMD are too generic\n* **AI is finally good enough** to translate raw biomarker data into clear, day-to-day actions.\n* **Existing doctor-AI tools** are focused on symptom analysis and diagnosis, not on labs and long-term disease prevention\n* **60% of Americans have a chronic disease.** We want to help these people manage or even reverse their conditions and help the other 40% stay healthy long into old age.\n\n### **“There’s a new AI agent/chatbot launching every day. Why does the world need another one?”**\n\n1. It’s 100% true that anyone can upload their lab results to ChatGPT or another LLM interface and have a passable conversation about them. Based on our real-world experience with the SiPhox user-base, having a single health dashboard where all of your health data lives makes all the difference. **It’s the same reason Cursor is more useful for coding than ChatGPT…** the assistant in the IDE and has all the necessary context to collaborate with the user. This is something we wanted to experiment with (and we are looking to get as much feedback as possible on the UI).\n2. ChatGPT and other chatbots do great on generic medical exams but just like a typical primary care physician, they are less trained to handle health optimization and advanced bloodwork. Selecting “deep research” gives better results, but the output still requires an expert to confirm.\n3. SiPhox customized Sai using years of experience repeatedly testing, and coaching tens of thousands of users. This kind of dataset of frequent, comprehensive testing and coaching doesn’t exist publicly (or privately, as far as we know) for LLMs to train on.\n4. We are not an AI company building in a vacuum; we are a hardware and clinical product company building, integrating AI to serve the needs of active users who partner with us every day to improve their health.\n\n**Transparently, we are not convinced that this form factor (a chatbot)** is the final iteration, but given the state of AI today (latency vs. accuracy and intelligence tradeoffs), this is where we are starting.\n\n---\n\n### [TALK TO SAI](https://siphoxhealth.com/try-sai)\n\n1. **Don’t forget to upload past labs** → your data and trends are analyzed and displayed in a clear dashboard with the Sai sidebar\\_: [https://siphoxhealth.com/try-sai](https://siphoxhealth.com/try-sai%5C)\n2. **Sign up for a home blood test kit subscription** → 20 % off for the YC community with code [LAUNCHYC20](https://siphoxhealth.com/?discount=LAUNCHYC20)\n3. Are you a business, healthtech startup, clinic, physician or coach? You can utilize all of these features in SiPhox Enterprise, co-branded or white-labeled: https://siphoxhealth.com/partner\n\n---\n\nTen years to cure all diseases is optimistic, but giving everyone a personal lab analyst today is how we start making progress.\n\nSee you in the dashboard,\n\nThe SiPhox Health team\n\n\\_________________________________________________________________\\_\n\n### **How is my data handled?**\n\nSiPhox does not sell or share your personal data. SiPhox maintains compliance with industry grade security and best data privacy standards.\n\n\\_________________________________________________________________\\_\n\n### **The disclaimer:**\n\nSai is an AI-powered assistant (Beta) developed by SiPhox to provide general informational and educational responses based on its training data. Like other AI models (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini), Sai may occasionally generate incomplete, outdated, or inaccurate information. We are actively working to improve its performance and reliability.\n\nSai does **not** provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment, and it is **not** a substitute for professional medical guidance. The use of Sai does **not** create a doctor-patient relationship. Any health-related content generated by Sai should not be acted upon without first consulting a qualified healthcare provider.\n\nSiPhox disclaims any liability for decisions made based on information provided by Sai. By using Sai, you acknowledge and agree to these limitations and to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NTM-sai-cursor-for-lab-test-results", "votes": 36, "created_at": "2025-05-09T15:22:45.474Z" }, { "id": 87455, "title": "🩸 SiPhox Health Ultimate Program – Comprehensive & Painless At-Home Blood Testing", "tagline": "Track 100+ blood biomarkers from home", "body": "### **TL;DR: We’ve launched the SiPhox Health Ultimate Program, a next-generation at-home blood testing and health tracking platform.**\n\n✅ 50+ biomarkers tracked painlessly from home\n\n✅ No venous draws, fingerpricks, traveling, appointments, or waiting rooms. Collect from home with the painless Easydraw arm collector device\n\n✅ 100+ total biomarkers when paired with yearly primary care lab result\n\n✅ Upload all your past lab tests (any lab) to track everything in one dashboard\n\n✅ AI-powered body fat % estimation using your phone camera (validated against DEXA scan)\n\n✅ Seamless integration with wearables & glucose monitors\n\n✅ Expert-driven, actionable, personalized insights\n\n✅ $498/year – less than $42/month for full health tracking — 50+ biomarker home tests twice per year\n\n🔗 **Try it now:** [siphoxhealth.com/ultimate-program](https://siphoxhealth.com/ultimate-program?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=ultimate-launch)\n\n---\n\n### **🔨 Why We Built This**\n\n# **The Problem: Blood Testing Is Stuck in the Past**\n\nWe live in a world where wearables track heart rate, sleep, and glucose 24/7, yet blood testing—the most critical health data source—is still:\n\n🚫 **Infrequent** – Most people only test once per year at a doctor's visit.\n\n🚫 **Incomplete** – Many key biomarkers are not tested until symptoms appear.\n\n🚫 **Inconvenient** – Booking an appointment, traveling to a lab, and waiting weeks for results is a hassle.\n\n🚫 **Painful** – Finger pricks and venous blood draws deter regular tracking.\n\n🚫 **Fragmented** – No easy way to combine biomarker data with wearables or look at trends in past blood test data.\n\nMeanwhile, people want more and better **insights into their health**, whether for **longevity, athletic performance, metabolic health, hormonal balance, chronic disease prevention, or chronic disease management.**\n\n# **The Solution: Convenient Biomarker Tracking + Personalized Health Insights**\n\n🔬 We spent the last **2.5 years** **experimenting** with at-home blood test kit offerings to solve this problem and **tested tens of thousands of people**.\n\nWith the **SiPhox Health Ultimate Program**, we brought blood biomarker tracking, painless home sample collection, advanced biomarkers, personalized insights, body composition, and wearable integration into one seamless platform—so you can take control of your health without paperwork, clinics, finger pricks, or expensive lab tests.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87455&key=user_uploads/520037/8ea35ddb-b0ed-49ad-8fe6-1a39abf649eb)\n\n### **💡 What did we learn since our last launch**\n\nWe launched our service in beta September of 2022 🚀\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87455&key=user_uploads/520037/18182bcb-e16e-4037-8d76-d14d009e28a0)\n\nWe’ve since served **10s of thousands** of users. Here are our **learnings**:\n\n1. More biomarkers = Better insights\n * Larger panels are more likely to uncover issues before they become serious\n * Users can handle (and often crave) more health data as long as it’s placed in proper context and made easy to understand\n * Biomarkers like ApoB, Ferritin, C-Peptide, Testosterone and others that are normally not tested without symptoms can often reveal early warning signs that can be reversed with low-effort interventions\n2. Finger pricks don't work for everybody. Some people don’t mind them at all but they deter many from maintaining regular testing.\n3. Comprehensive home blood testing can make a big difference in people’s lives. A few examples below in the words of our users:\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87455&key=user_uploads/520037/b9dce2a7-78a1-46d5-ba3e-13ed5594e215)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87455&key=user_uploads/520037/07fcc565-3131-435d-b56b-ded73ebbdab4)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87455&key=user_uploads/520037/d9745e3b-0cbf-4868-bd20-5aeb61d19065)\n\n\n\n### **💡 What You Get**\n\n✅ **At-Home Blood Testing – No Finger Pricks Required**\n\nWe've launched **Easydraw**, a **painless upper-arm blood collection patch** that allows you to test **50+ biomarkers** from home.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87455&key=user_uploads/520037/b03d31fb-e658-4d1c-ae36-4316da2d42b0)\n\n✅ **100+ Biomarkers with Your Annual Primary Care Lab Results**\n\nEasily **upload previous blood test results** from any lab (e.g., Quest, Labcorp) to **build the most complete biomarker dataset possible.** A typical annual wellness blood test contains a Complete Blood Count, Complete Metabolic Panel, and a Urine test. Add these to the SiPhox panel for a more complete picture of your health.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87455&key=user_uploads/520037/78cf4613-c1de-434f-b38b-a62eadd72733)\n\n✅ **AI-Powered Body Fat % Estimation**\n\nUsing just your phone camera, our app **analyzes body composition with AI**—giving you an accurate **body fat % estimate validated against Dexascan**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87455&key=user_uploads/520037/36289b67-aab1-4b69-946d-b515743689c8)\n\n✅ **Wearable Integration + Continuous Health Tracking**\n\nSyncs seamlessly with **Apple Health, Oura, Whoop, Abbot Libre, Dexcom, and more** to combine biomarker testing with **sleep, activity, HRV, and glucose data.**\n\n✅ **Expert-driven, actionable, personalized insights and action plans**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87455&key=user_uploads/520037/b26827e0-45ee-41ac-a694-a9f24fd42df5)\n\n**✅ Scientists**\n\nOur team is made up of experts, Ph.D.s, MDs, and engineers, who are passionate about blood testing and health optimization. SiPhox is the only direct-to-consumer (DTC) home blood testing company developing its own hardware.\n\n**✅ More value for your money**\n\nWe avoid costly partnerships with celebrities and focus on shipping new features as our main driver of growth.\n\n### **📈 Why Now?**\n\n---\n\n6 out of 10 Americans have at least one chronic disease. Getting and staying healthy is more of a priority than ever before. Wearables, CGMs, and health tracking are becoming mainstream, but **blood testing is stuck in the past**—it’s inconvenient, painful, and limited to annual checkups.\n\nSiPhox Health bridges the gap, combining **at-home biomarker testing** with a **seamless, full-featured health dashboard.**\n\n---\n\n🩸 **Sign up today:** [siphoxhealth.com/ultimate-program](https://siphoxhealth.com/ultimate-program?utm_source=yc&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=ultimate-launch)\n\n---\n\n### 🔗 **About SiPhox Health**\n\n---\n\nSiPhox Health, backed by Khosla Ventures, Intel Capital, and Y Combinator, is a full-stack home blood testing company currently offering consumers and businesses mail-in test kits to conveniently measure a broad range of biomarkers. Founded at MIT, our mission is to commercialize SiPhox Home—a silicon photonic chip-based device that delivers instant blood test results at home, making biomarker testing easier, smarter, and more accessible than ever.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MkZ-siphox-health-ultimate-program-comprehensive-painless-at-home-blood-testing", "votes": 39, "created_at": "2025-02-05T22:23:17.832Z" }, { "id": 83565, "title": "🩸SiPhox Health BiomarkerAI: Transform your PDF blood test results into simple, actionable insights", "tagline": "Upload your recent blood test results for free and receive a clear, easy-to-understand analysis of your health data.", "body": "## **TL; DR:**\n\nTrying to understand your blood test results shouldn't be a confusing or frustrating experience. At SiPhox Health, we simplify your lab results, offering clear insights into your health, actionable steps to improve it, and affordable at-home tests to track your progress. Say goodbye to cluttered, overwhelming reports, and hello to a healthier, more informed you.\n\n**🔗Link to try it out:** \n\n## **🚨 The Problem**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83565&key=user_uploads/520037/b16be89b-06df-4b1c-8919-382ec764ecf1)\n\n**60% of American adults** are living with at least one chronic illness, and **40%** are living with two or more. Regular blood tests are vital for identifying and managing these conditions, but the traditional reports often add to the confusion.\n\nInstead of offering clarity, you're met with pages of numbers, confusing medical jargon, and reference ranges that merely tell you if you’re “in” or “out”. If you're lucky enough to discuss the results with your doctor, you might gain some clarity and a prescription, but you’re unlikely to fully understand the status of your body, and feel like you have a clear plan to improve your health.\n\nWhat's more, as long as your results aren't drastically abnormal, you might not receive any feedback from your doctor at all. This can lead to the neglect of critical signals—issues that may only become apparent when they escalate, often surfacing only a year later in your next annual blood test.\n\n## 💡 **The SiPhox Solution**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83565&key=user_uploads/520037/a84c1e65-96d2-494d-aab4-d8d097d3908f)\n\nCheck out a demo of the dashboard here: \n\nWe’ve developed a platform that turns your blood test results into actionable insights, empowering you to understand your body, make informed changes to improve your health and track your progress over time.\n\n1. Understand your body\n * Simple explanations for each test, and insights to help you understand what your result for that test means.\n2. Make changes.\n * Personalized diet, lifestyle, and supplement recommendations based on your blood test results and health goals. Our bodies are unique, complex systems, for which general recommendations will not suffice. Your action plan will be made custom for you.\n3. Track progress.\n * How do you know if the changes have been effective? Take another blood test with a SiPhox at-home testing kit. SiPhox offers the most comprehensive and inexpensive at-home blood test kit on the market.\n * Visualize how your biomarkers are trending on simple, intuitive graphs.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83565&key=user_uploads/520037/a67fa2bf-4ccc-453f-8ede-b5db1b40f41e)\n\n## **How did we develop our algorithms:**\n\nWe run a mail-in blood testing subscription service ([$165 for quarterly testing](https://siphoxhealth.com)) that enables users to test 17 key blood biomarkers from home with a painless self-collected sample. We trained an AI algorithm on the massive amount of biomarker data we’ve collected over the years, coupled with all the insights our clinical team delivered to our subscribers.\n\n## **How it works:**\n\n1. **Upload Your Results:** You can upload blood test results from any doctor or provider by either uploading a file or manually entering them.\n2. **Help us understand your goals:** Take a short questionnaire to help us understand your current lifestyle and what your health goals are. For example, you’re currently fairly sedentary and would like to boost your energy and mood.\n3. **Receive your Insights:** We use a combination of AI and our experts to generate personalized, actionable insights for you. Within two days of submitting your report, you’ll be able to view these insights in your dashboard.\n4. **Take another blood test:** After implementing your health protocols, take another blood test to see how your biomarkers have adapted. Then, you can view the state of each biomarker with intuitive graphs and scores.\n5. **For bonus points:** Connect your wearable device to combine sleep, activity, and heart rate data with your blood biomarkers in the same dashboard.\n\n\n\n## **⚡️ Real Results, Real Impact:**\n\nWith hundreds of thousands of blood biomarker results delivered, SiPhox is already transforming how people understand, track, and improve their health. Whether it's identifying nutritional gaps or optimizing fitness, our users are making data-driven decisions that lead to tangible improvements in their well-being.\n\nJoin a growing community of health-seekers by uploading your blood test results today.\n\n## 🤝 **Quick ask**\n\n* [Click here to try it out!](https://siphoxhealth.com/understand-your-test-results)\n* If you find the product helpful, share it with your friends, family, and social media followers.\n* We welcome feedback on SiPhox’s product and encourage you to suggest new features.\n\n**Talk to us** - Interested in working, learning more, or collaborating? Email [team@siphoxhealth.com](mailto:team@siphoxhealth.com) or visit our [partner](https://my.siphoxhealth.com/pages/partner) and [career](https://my.siphoxhealth.com/pages/careers) pages.\n\n## 🦊**About SiPhox**\n\n[SiPhox](https://www.siphoxhealth.com/) Health, Inc. is a venture-backed startup in Greater Boston that integrates microfluidics, biochemistry, and Silicon Photonics to miniaturize proteomics. It was founded in February 2020. We are building lab-quality blood testing and advanced primary care for the home to help prevent and manage chronic disease.\n\nThe SiPhox team has extensive experience translating cutting-edge optical chip technology into mass-produced products used worldwide. It is bringing the same proven approach to the next frontier for integrated photonics. This new frontier is biology.\n\nSiPhox has [raised](https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/19/intel-khosla-27m-siphox-health-at-home-blood-test-healthcare/?guccounter=1) $29M to date and is backed by Y Combinator, Intel Capital, Metaplanet, and Khosla Ventures.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=83565&key=user_uploads/520037/83d647ea-a0c1-491c-bd8c-7d9dcb635796)\n\n## **📝Disclaimer:**\n\nThis free service is meant for informational and educational purposes only. The reference ranges and insights presented in the SiPhox Health dashboard are meant to improve readability and provide context; however, you should consult with your physician for a more formal interpretation of your results. No communication from SiPhox Health is meant to be or should be taken as medical advice. SiPhox Health is a wellness-only service and is not designed to diagnose, prevent, or treat any disease. If you are concerned about any of the data in your dashboard, please consult your physician immediately.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Ljp-siphox-health-biomarkerai-transform-your-pdf-blood-test-results-into-simple-actionable-insights", "votes": 32, "created_at": "2024-08-28T23:32:55.194Z" }, { "id": 66235, "title": "SiPhox Health - Convenient at-home health tracking", "tagline": "At-home health testing is too expensive and slow. We’re fixing that.", "body": "SiPhox is building at-home blood testing hardware using silicon photonic chips. Our hardware product is currently in development and we plan to start beta testing it in users’ homes in 2023. ([Watch Lab Tour](https://youtu.be/u6oF_lyUsII)).\n\n**The average American lifespan has plateaued over the last 2 decades:**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=66235&key=user_uploads/520037/ae9a0197-58ee-4f23-884b-e894463751d3)\n\nWe believe that every human is unique. Biomarker tracking is required to know whether a particular lifestyle or health intervention is working. At scale, we envision that frequent population biomarker tracking will enable humans to live longer and healthier lives.\n\n**To enable this future, our team is working to decrease the cost of at-home testing by 10x and make results available immediately.**\n\n**SiPhox just launched Quantify, an at-home test kit service that enables users to track 17 health tests ($95/test)** 🩸 **+ sleep, activity, and heart rate data from your wearable device ⌚ in a single dashboard.** [JOIN QUANTIFY (10% off)](https://getquantify.io/pages/tier-page?utm_source=YC-launch&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=YC-launch&utm_id=YC-launch)\n\n### About Quantify\n\n* Quantify was created to empower individuals to take control of their health journey.\n* Quantify is a simple, convenient, low-cost, and comprehensive way to track your health and minimize chronic disease risk.\n* We measure inflammation, metabolic fitness, hormonal + nutritional balance, and cardiovascular health. These are shown in a comprehensive, easy-to-understand wellness dashboard ([sample dashboard](https://app.getquantify.io/reports/d3e8b07917dba)) with personalized insights so you can track and improve over time.\n* For now, all the tests are done via **mail-in,** **self-collected samples** at a **gold standard CLIA-certified lab**, SiPhox hardware will be phased in next year.\n* **Over the last 3 months, our alpha users discovered and improved things like low Vit. D, high inflammation (hsCRP), low Testosterone, High ApoB/LDL cholesterol, high fasting Insulin, poor sleep, and more.**\n* We want this sort of tracking to be broadly accessible to those that can’t afford concierge medicine. **At $95/kit for the monthly membership (before discount) we set the lowest price on the market (compare to $250 for Insidetracker InnerAge 2.0).**\n* Use this link for a 10% discount on your first 3 test kits: [JOIN QUANTIFY](https://getquantify.io/pages/tier-page?utm_source=YC-launch&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=YC-launch&utm_id=YC-launch)\n\n# \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=66235&key=user_uploads/520037/03fb9c15-7e73-4c12-afb5-acc75306264b)\n\n# **How it works** ⚙️\n\n1. Subscribe to Quantify\n2. (optional) Connect your wearable devices (8sleep, Fitbit, Whoop, Oura, etc.)\n3. Receive an at-home collection kit to self-collect a blood sample (see picture above)\n4. Join our weekly webinar for a guided self-collection if you have never done it before. You will be a pro in 10 minutes 🙂\n5. Mail in your sample (USPS pickup) and view the results in your intuitive wellness dashboard ([sample dashboard](https://app.getquantify.io/reports/d3e8b07917dba))\n6. Receive customized insights based on your blood biomarker and wearable data\n7. Do your own experiments (diet, supplements, exercise, biohacking, etc.)\n8. Test again and track your results over time\n9. Compare your scores against Quantify user averages\n\n**Get in touch** ✉️\n\n1. Feel free to contact us at [hello@getquantify.io](mailto:hello@getquantify.io) with any questions or suggestions about the service\n2. If you are interested in integrating Quantify into your product offering, please get in touch via [info@siphox.com](mailto:info@siphox.com)\n\n### Use this link for a 10% discount on your first 3 test kits: [JOIN QUANTIFY](https://getquantify.io/pages/tier-page?utm_source=YC-launch&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=YC-launch&utm_id=YC-launch)\n\n### ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/HEJ-siphox-health-convenient-at-home-health-tracking", "votes": 61, "created_at": "2022-09-22T16:18:57.138Z" } ] }, { "id": 22840, "name": "Nirva", "slug": "nirva", "former_names": [ "Prescribe", "Yara", "Prescribe" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/e40298f2e647873021bf8e485aafd12df64afa02.png", "website": "https://nirvahealth.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Nirva is the lifestyle medicine layer for clinicians. 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The only way to deal with them is to cultivate sustainable dietary and lifestyle habits.\n\nChronic conditions have always been on the rise due to changing lifestyles, dietary habits, and environmental factors. The COVID-19 pandemic has only served to intensify this alarming trend, catapulting it to new heights.\n\nTo put it in perspective, Today more than **70%** of the adult population in the US report having one or more long-term health conditions that impact their quality of life and this number is rising.\\\n\\\n_Chronic illnesses account for **75% of all healthcare expenses** in the US._\n\nAlthough genetics play a role, most chronic illnesses are influenced by social determinants of health, such as sleep, diet, fitness, and stress. The power to make a difference lies largely with the individual.\n\nIn order to solve this problem, we need to shift the agency. So far the agents of healthcare have been doctors, nurses, and paramedics and the venue of healthcare has been hospitals and clinics and this needs to shift. The agent has to be the individual themselves and the venue has to be wherever the individual is, the home, their office, or wherever else.\n\n### **What’s the problem with Chronic condition management now?**\n\nI’ll walk you through the problems of the existing approach through the **story of our client👩🏻** Jennifer who is a lawyer in London.\n\nShe has a busy life and started experiencing peri-menopause symptoms like gut issues and hot flashes at 50.\n\nShe took medication but they only gave her temporary relief.\n\nThe symptoms kept on coming back and this affected her family and work life causing a lot of stress for her.\n\nHer mental health took a toll and that impacted her physical health.\n\nShe became trapped in a vicious flywheel, where her declining mental health fueled her physical deterioration, and vice versa.\n\n### **Our Solution✅**\n\nJennifer joined our program.\n\nShe received personalized Ayurvedic diet plans based on her body type. Through the program, she learned healthy diet habits and how to eat food in the right way, discovering the power of food as medicine.\n\nJennifer had a dedicated health coach who kept her motivated and supported her throughout her healing journey. She also did 1-1 therapeutic yoga sessions that were tailor-made for her condition. These sessions not only provided physical exercise but also helped her calm down in a way that a normal yoga session wouldn't.\n\nIn addition to this, Jennifer had access to a community of supportive women who were going through the same phase as her, creating a sense of belonging and support.\n\nOur Nirva app helped Jennifer stay accountable to her goals through customized progress tracking. The app provided her with a gamified healing experience and helped her build sustainable dietary and lifestyle habits.\n\nWith consistent effort, Jennifer's symptoms subsided within just 3 months. She gained control over her health and her life, and we couldn't be happier to have been a part of her journey.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70803&key=user_uploads/528396/b0c71ae2-86ee-4d8c-8052-dd8c006a85ad)\n\nOur customer love is Insane-Don’t have to take our word for it. Check it out yourself.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=70803&key=user_uploads/528396/b19c873a-c0de-4cde-8e53-c626034c4fff)\n\n[Watch Client Testimonials](https://youtu.be/z9gYV6ktwGU)\n\n### **Tell me more! 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Previously built software to make machine learning infrastructure and data pipelines work at Lyft Level 5, fraud and AML products at Unit 21, and monitoring systems at Google Cloud.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/migueltol22/", "x_url": "", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/ac3d7ae747618ec5283495193be65b233bbdc491.jpg" } ], "jobs": [ { "id": 65864, "title": "Software Engineer", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flex/jobs/XE6Guz3-software-engineer", "location": "US / Remote (US)", "type": "Full-time", "role": "Engineering", "role_type": "Full stack", "salary_range": "$165K - $212K", "equity_range": "", "experience": "3+ years", "visa": "US citizen/visa only", "skills": [ "PostgreSQL", "React", "Rust", "TypeScript" ] } ], "news": [ { "title": "Flex Raises $15M to Unlock $150B in Unused HSA/FSA Funds", "url": "https://www.withflex.com/blog/flex-raises-15m-to-unlock-150b-in-untapped-pre-tax-spending-for-health-wellness-retailers", "date": "Sep 02, 2025" }, { "title": "Flex raises $3.2M seed for D2C health account payments", "url": "https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2024/09/04/flex-d2c-health-account-payments-seed", "date": "Sep 04, 2024" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 86397, "title": "Flex Market: Marketplace for HSA/FSA", "tagline": "Save 30% on health & wellness products by shopping with your HSA/FSA", "body": "We’re excited to introduce [Flex Market](https://www.withflex.com/shop), a new marketplace designed to make health and wellness more accessible.\n\nHere’s a glimpse of what you’ll find on Flex Market:\n\n* **🏋️‍♀️** Fitness programs and equipment\n* 🧴 Supplements \n* 💆‍♀️ Sleep and recovery products\n* ⌚ Wearables \n* 🏥 Traditional OTC health products (eyeglasses, women’s health products etc)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86397&key=user_uploads/6343/178a211a-9313-4e35-af74-717bc445d4ed)\n\n**Why Flex Market is Unique**\n\nFor products like supplements, fitness equipment or other “dual use” items, consumers are required to have a doctor's note, or Letter of Medical Necessity (LMN), to qualify to spend their HSA/FSA funds. \n\nFlex is the only place where consumers can both shop for traditional healthcare products (think what you might expect to find at a CVS) as well as those items that require a Letter of Medical Necessity (LMN). For those that require the latter, consumers can initiate a two minute telehealth consultation immediately, qualify, and receive their LMNs later that day.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=86397&key=user_uploads/6343/67901886-4948-4208-807e-b72e1d912ecc)\n\n**Quick HSA/FSA Background**\n\nHealth Savings Accounts and Flexible Spending Accounts are tax advantaged accounts that are designated to be spent on healthcare related purchases. Historically these funds have only been able to be spent on trips to the doctor’s office or buying items at CVS. \n\nFSAs are use-it-or-lose-it, meaning that at the end of the year any funds that aren't spent are forfeited. On average, individuals lose about $450 per year, resulting in nearly $10B of lost benefits.\n\n**Why it Matters**\n\nFlex Market isn’t just a shopping platform – it’s part of a larger mission to make health and wellness more accessible.\n\nBy addressing the barriers of traditional HSA/FSA spending, we’re helping people:\n\n* Avoid forfeiting their hard-earned HSA/FSA funds\n* Discover new ways to invest in their health\n* Making health products and services more accessible\n\n**Check Us Out Today!**\n\nIf you or someone you know has FSA funds to spend before year-end or is gearing up for health-related purchases as part of a New Year’s resolution, check out [Flex Market!](https://www.withflex.com/shop) If you’re interested in seeing your brand on the marketplace, reach out to us [here.](https://www.withflex.com/contact)\n\nThanks so much for your support – and here’s to a healthier 2025! 💪", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/MTV-flex-market-marketplace-for-hsa-fsa", "votes": 15, "created_at": "2024-12-18T17:21:25.934Z" }, { "id": 73539, "title": "💪 Flex: Stripe for HSA/FSA payments", "tagline": "We enable businesses to unlock the $120B per year sitting in HSA/FSA accounts.", "body": "**TL;DR** - Flex is Stripe for HSA/FSAs\\*. We enable businesses to unlock the $120B per year sitting in HSA/FSA accounts. To learn more or start accepting HSA/FSA payments, email [partners@withflex.com](mailto:partners@withflex.com).\n\n**PROBLEM**\n\nToday, HSA/FSAs can only be spent at medical institutions or large retailers that have specific inventory management systems in place to comply with IRS regulations.\n\nAs a result many consumer wellness, fitness, nutrition, and even e-commerce companies selling health related products are not able to accept HSA/FSAs. \n\nThese businesses are missing out on 60M American consumers who are looking to spend $120B per year from their HSA/FSA accounts on health related products and services.\n\n**SOLUTION**\n\nFlex is a payment platform for businesses to accept HSA/FSA cards. \n\nWe provide a prebuilt, hosted checkout page or UI building blocks to integrate HSA/FSA payments directly into your existing payments flow. \n\nWe know how critical your checkout flow is so Flex pages are thoughtfully designed to optimize conversion.\n\n**HOW IT WORKS**\n\nFor [pre-approved items by the IRS](https://www.irs.gov/publications/p502#en_US_2022_pu): Flex checks your inventory against the most up to date IRS approved products list and it processes the FSA or HSA payment, and keeps the necessary records in the case of an audit.\n\nFor non-pre-approved items: Flex’s asynchronous telehealth team assesses medical necessity and can issue the required paperwork to make your product or service HSA/FSA eligible for the customer — all in a streamlined checkout flow.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73539&key=user_uploads/6343/927924de-af6b-4596-9f0e-e9d4c0e3dfe8)\n\n_(Checkout flow with telehealth intake form.)_\n\n**TEAM**\n\nWe’re Sam and Miguel! We met working together at a growth stage at fintech company, Unit21. We’re both lifelong athletes, and started Flex because we believe we can improve people’s lives by making healthy habits more accessible.\n\n![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/0hhGyZ9IuCFZkpaxuzoVFghZLgb7v5ExY518_dAHcfS-q7HqdRfVPnU-wOttzSfX0aSjPlHRl73BkpgOjgddEgKXp1qufEtrE_DXZz1_IyVgzzp1YM7GcfoNV7-O3fSqB14Of6RTsHvn6Hbuo_Hua20)\n\n\\***_Background - What are HSA/FSAs?_**\n\n_HSAs (Health Savings Account) and FSAs (Flexible Savings Accounts) are accounts that allow you to set aside pre-tax money to spend on health related purchases. 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But access to guidance on how to make yourself stand out to colleges is expensive (private college consultants) or not well packaged.\\\n\\\n[**👷**](https://emojipedia.org/construction-worker) **Our Solution**\\\nWe’ve created an AI advisor that helps students become extraordinary.\n\n1. Firstly, we simulate the process that elite colleges use to evaluate profiles to give students an idea of what their odds are (Naviance but better).\n2. Secondly, we give recommendations that students can iterate on. This pulls from a database of 3000+ opportunities, including opportunities exclusive to our platform, like high school-specific internships with venture-backed startups.\n3. Finally, we have a 24/7 AI coach that calls users to check in with them and help them plan and reflect.\n\nAI will make the top performers produce a larger and larger proportion of human work. We will help create this next generation of top performers from the most ambitious students of today.\\\n\\\n**🙏 Our Ask**\\\n\\\nWe’d love to hear from you if you fall into these categories:\n\n* Are you interested in working with or reaching the most ambitious high schoolers? We’ve got a range of partnership-led products coming up, working with startups and enterprises to help them recruit talent, get talent to use their products, and more. This could be as simple as posting opportunities to our platform and being able to recruit the best of the best at their scrappiest or creating job simulations.\n* You’re in education and can help us reach school districts and counselors. We want to give our product for free to schools!\n* If you’re a parent and can help us reach other parents with middle school to high school aged kids.\n* And of course, if you found this as a high schooler: [useultra.ai](http://useultra.ai) is for you.", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/N8i-ultra-advisor-for-ambitious-students", "votes": 47, "created_at": "2025-03-25T22:57:49.442Z" } ] }, { "id": 29443, "name": "Adapted", "slug": "adapted", "former_names": [ "Chirp", "Convey", "Corefin", "Stackgrant", "For Effect", "ForEffect", "Pernell" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/1a533cff802e0f9057f1431e6f53533be5b04b80.png", "website": "https://adapted.app", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Adapted is an AI physical therapist for athletes. 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Try [Adapted for iOS](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adapted-prehab-recovery/id6756030925)!\n\n### Background\n\nI’ve sprained my left ankle over 20+ times. During Army training, my ankle almost gave out during a ruck. That's when I realized being fit but fragile is still a liability.\n\n### Problem\n\nFixing my ankle was more painful than the injury itself. PT meant hours off work, generic exercises, and $200 a visit out of pocket. And even then, it only treated the injury, not the underlying weakness.\n\n### Meet Adapted\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99406&key=user_uploads/1032232/d89e036e-c103-4368-8a83-e5ab1a53a7f7)\n\n[Adapted](https://www.adapted.app/) is an AI physical therapist for athletes. Tell it your injury history, your sport, your training goals, and it builds a program tailored to you. 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I’ve shipped consumer health apps before and scaled them to hundreds of daily active users.\n\n### Try Adapted Out\n\n* [Download Adapted (iOS App Store)](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adapted-prehab-recovery/id6756030925)\n* Email us at [team@adapted.app](mailto:team@adapted.app)\n* Support our [Product Hunt launch](https://www.producthunt.com/products/adapted-health)\n* Join our Subreddit ([r/adapted](https://www.reddit.com/r/adapted/)) if you any have questions\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=99406&key=user_uploads/1032232/159ee3ab-9b53-4b50-a5fc-23f0f60be630)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PrK-adapted-ai-physical-therapy-for-athletes", "votes": 34, "created_at": "2026-04-03T20:20:15.453Z" } ] }, { "id": 30203, "name": "Vocality Health", "slug": "vocality-health", "former_names": [ "Celebi AI", "Scyther" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/41da0485e955f2070020b3fb65cf8716d346525e.png", "website": "https://www.vocalityhealth.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Our app allows doctors to speak any language, eliminating the need for human medical translators in hospitals and clinics. 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Unlike human interpreters, Vocality is instant, always available, and integrates directly into hospital workflows. Hospitals are already signing up.\\\n\\\n\n\n---\n\n## The Problem ❌\n\nHospitals struggle to communicate with linguistically diverse patients. Current solutions like human interpreters, phone services, or ad hoc translation by family members are slow, expensive, and often unavailable when needed most. Miscommunication leads to worse outcomes, longer hospital stays, and nearly doubles the cost of care.\n\n---\n\n## Our Solution ✅\n\nVocality Health is an AI-powered interpretation platform for hospitals that provides real-time, accurate, and clinically safe translation for doctors and patients.\n\nUnlike existing services:\n\n* **🏥 Instant & Always On** – No need to wait for an interpreter.\n* **🧑‍⚕️ Built for Hospitals** – Designed for clinical use, not general-purpose translation. Compliant and built to preserve patient privacy.\n* **📲 Fully Integrated** – Works with existing systems and hospital workflows.\n\nHospitals using Vocality get faster patient care, lower costs, and better outcomes.\n\n---\n\n## The Team 🤝\n\nVivek and I met as undergrads on the Harvard Cricket Club and later built [Fulltrack AI](https://www.linkedin.com/company/fulltrack-ai), a viral cricket app that became the #1 sports app in India, outranking the Olympics app (during the Olympics).\n\nWe’re now teaming up again to solve a problem that is deeply personal to both of us. After being denied coverage in the U.S., I spent years navigating international healthcare, experiencing firsthand how language barriers impact care and outcomes. Vivek, a PhD in speech generative models, has spent years developing AI to improve real-time communication. 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Amby Health automates the entire process, ensuring 100% of patient reports (PCRs) are reviewed in real-time, helping agencies increase revenue, reduce workload, and improve patient care.\n\nKnow any **EMS Directors/CEOs or Fire Department Captains**? Please introduce us! \n\nEmail: [contact@amby.health](mailto:contact@amby.health)\n\n# **The Team**\n\n**Yos (CEO):**  MIT dropout, ex-Meta engineer, ML researcher at MIT CSAIL, and former engineer at Allm, a company providing pre-hospital emergency care. He saw firsthand how outdated, manual EMS documentation and billing slow down providers and reduce revenue.\n\n**Timmy (CTO):** – MIT dropout, ex-Amazon/Bloomberg engineer, AI researcher at MIT Media Lab, and healthcare data scientist at OM1. He saw how valuable insights are buried in unstructured medical records, making it hard for providers to act on critical data.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=87974&key=user_uploads/541108/0d47eceb-120d-4b66-acd1-d3f1a67db38a)\n\n# **The Problem**\n\nEMS quality reviews and billing are still manual and inefficient, leading to:\n\n* **Missed Errors & Compliance Risks** – Incomplete patient reports (PCRs) slip through, leading to under-documented care, protocol violations, and legal exposure.\n* **Lost Revenue & Billing Delays** – EMS teams spend hours fixing reports, chasing down medics, and resubmitting claims. 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Today, we’re expanding across Europe.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/a5fX1K5hnvU\n\n### **The Problem In Europe**\n\n85% of deaths are caused by preventable chronic diseases. That’s more than 4 million lives lost every year just in Europe. Yet, the healthcare system remains reactive, and people receive care only after something goes wrong.\n\nThose seeking comprehensive preventive care, including blood testing, analysis, and expert guidance, typically resort to private longevity clinics that charge over €50K per year. **Such premium healthcare remains inaccessible to the vast majority of people.**\n\n### **Lucis: Health Insights in Your Pocket**\n\n_“If you're tired of being in the dark about your health, not knowing where you stand or what to do next, Lucis is built for you.”_\n\nLucis goes beyond vague checkups and unreadable lab reports. It provides a clear health baseline, tracks progress over time, and translates complex biomarker data into personalized guidance people can actually implement in their daily lives. All at a fraction of the cost of a private clinic.\n\nYou’ll get answers to questions like:\n\n_\"Am I aging faster than I should?\"_\n\n_\"Is my testosterone at a healthy level for my age?\"_\n\n_\"How can I improve my next marathon performance?\"_\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90454&key=user_uploads/1454634/0a347d82-7c9b-4fef-8c72-bf70511ce761)\n\nHere’s how it works:\n\n* 2 full health check-ups per year\n* See how your body’s doing with 15 health scores and your biological age - and track your progress over time.\n* Personalized action plan across nutrition, sleep, and movement\n* Access to longevity add-on tests, like microbiome, continuous glucose monitoring, and food sensitivity tests.\n\n### **The Team**\n\nWe started Lucis because we’ve lived the problem ourselves.\n\nBaptiste lost a close relative to a condition that could’ve been caught earlier. Max B has spent the last decade deep in biohacking, testing everything from supplements to wearables. At 27, Max G turned his health into an experiment - tracking sleep, diet, and training - and improved nearly all of his biomarkers in the process. We know what it’s like to search for clarity and get none.\n\n**Lucis is what we wish we had - and now, we’re building it for everyone else.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=90454&key=user_uploads/1454634/830d7470-4a85-446e-b427-38ec7343d441)\n\n### **Since launching our beta just 4 months ago:**\n\n* **30,000+ people** have joined our European longevity community.\n* **30+ lab locations** opened across France\n* **2 new European cities** - now live in Lisbon 🇵🇹 and London 🇬🇧\n* **500+ people in Paris** used Lucis to get ahead of chronic illness\n* **10 AI Startups** have gifted Lucis as a health benefit for their employees\n\n## \n\n### **Our Vision**\n\n**Lucis isn’t just a product - we’re building a completely new healthcare system in Europe.** One that lives with you. 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Staying healthy was becoming a second full-time job. \n\n**That’s why we built Nori.**\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUbvmqdwqSA\n\n\\\n**What it is:** All your health data in one place—Apple Health, Oura, Whoop, Peloton, nutrition apps, Garmin, MyChart, blood tests from Function Health, Superpower—all feeding your personal health AI.\n\n**Who it’s for:** People who want weight loss, better energy, or faster recovery—starting with iOS users\n\n**Real examples from my own data:**\n\n* I got stronger when I added rest days instead of grinding 6-7 workouts weekly\n* Magnesium at bedtime increased my REM sleep by 25%\n* When I miss a workout, Nori tells me exactly how to adjust\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=94783&key=user_uploads/156882/90c3d465-cd9c-4aaa-b378-cf827d3d5ae3)\n\n**About us**\\\nWe’re [Dave](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dzohrob/) and [Harish](https://www.linkedin.com/in/harish-p-agarwal/), cofounders of **Chartable** (acquired by Spotify in 2022); Harish was co-founder/CTO of **Octopart** (YC W07, acquired 2015).\n\n**Try it now**\\\nHave a wearable + iPhone and actually want to get healthier? 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She built all the AI support software tooling from scratch as a solo-engineer. She built the Starlink app/web chatbots, an AI copilot for internal teams and support agents, a telemetry enabled root causing system, and much more! She helped take AI automation at Starlink from 0 to 70%. \\\n\\\n**Hamza:** \\\nHamza built internal tooling to manage Starlink’s multi-billion dollar ecommerce flow and solved global customer issues. He built the internal localization framework, payments infrastructure, SEO, content management, and much more\n\n### The Problem:\n\nFor hardware products, post-sales support is more than just replying to emails and working tickets. **50-80% of customer issues are tightly coupled with what is happening on devices.** Resolutions require in person service, warranty checks, returns & replacements (RMAs), video calls, and root-causing defective hardware.\n\nAt SpaceX, we evaluated over 20 customer support companies and ended up needing to build our own. 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It adapts your training, recovery, and nutrition each day to how your body is actually responding.\n\nImperfect's AI coach is helping users train for their first triathlon, prep for a downhill mountain bike race, and (for one professional ultramarathoner) recover after placing 2nd in a 50-mile trail race in Puerto Vallarta.\n\n→ [Download Imperfect](https://go.imperfect.co/yc) to improve your training.\n\n[_Imperfect (YC P26): Training that Adapts to Real Life_](https://youtu.be/xVmMhqS0eZg?si=YEs6nieLNYDwXPVo)\n\n### **For the imperfect ones**\n\nIf another health tool tells me to reduce my stress level, I swear I'll throw it out the window. I'm not going to be \"Fully Optimized\" or want \"Maximum Suffering!!!\". I'm a 41-year-old founder/ultramarathoner with scoliosis. I need something that'll adapt to prioritizing a launch, working late, or prepping for Demo Day.\n\nWhen Imperfect recommends 30g of protein after my hill repeats, I can have it switch the units to tacos. 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", "body": "**Hey everyone 👋!** We’re [Pari](https://www.linkedin.com/in/paridhilatawa/), [Frank](https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-lee-/), and [Jin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jinwong01/), co-founders of Illume. \n\n**TL;DR:** Illume is a 24/7 personal health companion that connects your wearables, nutrition, workouts, and lab results to give you personalized, actionable insights over text. \n\n**Join our private beta waitlist: [www.illumelabs.ai](http://www.illumelabs.ai). \\\nWatch Our [Launch Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsfFOzB0Nho):**\n\n**Problem:** \n\nHealth data is more abundant than ever, but it remains scattered. Nearly six in ten U.S. adults own a wearable or connected health device, and nearly one in three used an AI chatbot for health questions. People are generating more health data than ever and actively looking for help understanding it, but their data and guidance still live in separate places. \n\nWe saw this firsthand as family members struggled to piece together glucose readings for diabetes and blood tests for cardiovascular risk, all while juggling a pile of fitness, nutrition, and health-tracking apps that never talked to each other. \n\nPeople increasingly turn to ChatGPT or Claude for answers, but without continuous context to their health, the advice is often generic, incomplete, and difficult to track over time.\n\n**Our solution:** \n\nIllume creates one home for your health and gives you a personal health companion you can text. \n\nToday, you can: \n\n* Connect your wearable and automatically sync sleep, activity, and recovery data \n* Text Illume photos of your meals to log and understand your nutrition \n* Record workouts and track your training \n* Upload bloodwork and lab results \n* Ask questions about your health using the context of your own data \n* Receive proactive insights about what changed, what it might mean, and what to do next\n\nFor example, you can ask: \n\n* “Why am I so exhausted today? Make me a dashboard of all the relevant metrics!” \n* “How has eating late affected my sleep?”\n* “Am I recovering well enough to train? 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Most probiotics disappoint because they’re one formula for everyone, and in any gut most of their strains never establish. GutGutGoose makes a probiotic that won’t work for any gut but yours: we sequence your microbiome, find which strains can establish in the microbes you already have, compound those into your formula, and re-sequence you weeks later to confirm they took hold.\n\nIt’s for people who’ve tried things for IBS, bloating, digestion, mood, weight or GLP-1 symptoms without luck. If it doesn’t work you get your money back, and retesting shows how your gut changed, so you know it’s not a placebo.\\\n\\\n\n\nThe innovation is accurately predicting which bacteria will live in a gut, which is extremely hard. It’s built on two peer-reviewed models, MICOM and AGORA2, and more than 7,000 metabolic reconstructions of gut bacteria, and it finds the strains that can hold in your gut’s community. 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Prev. Founder of 7-time award winning biotech startup (exited in 1.5 years). Beauty & lifestyle influencer (26k+ followers, 10M+ views in 2 months). Published author at 9 years old with <3 years of English knowledge as Syrian Refugee. UC Berkeley BS Bioengineering + BA Economics admit at 15. Prev. strategy work @ Flex, Pfizer, & PBS. Wetlab + CompBio Researcher.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryanne-alhallak-33b250241", "x_url": "https://x.com/malhalla06", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/83313ba7c25e91eda4e8d5c5f8b36be5038fab4b.jpg" }, { "user_id": 3470868, "full_name": "Anthea Guo", "title": "Founder/CTO", "founder_bio": "Founder and CTO at Lumeria. Previously Team Lead at Google, leading a 6-person Berkeley collaboration on DeepVariant. Built HPC pipelines at Boehringer Ingelheim. Built Streamind's phone-based pulse capture pipeline. Co-founded Computational Biology @ Berkeley.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthea-guo", "x_url": "https://x.com/theantheaguo", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/afe4281df1b70d51d9f9230998c91ac9550130e9.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [ { "title": "From Berkeley to Y Combinator: Lumeria Founders Build the Oura Ring for Skin - UC Berkeley Sutardja Center", "url": "https://scet.berkeley.edu/from-berkeley-to-y-combinator-lumeria-founders-build-the-oura-ring-for-skin/", "date": "Jul 01, 2026" } ], "launches": [ { "id": 109979, "title": "Lumeria - What if there was an Oura Ring for Skin?", "tagline": "What if there was an Oura Ring for Skin?", "body": "# Lumeria is the Oura Ring for Skin:\n\nTLDR: Lumeria is the Oura Ring for Skin: the Lumoscope clips onto your phone, scans your skin with the same multispectral light used in clinics, and Lumi, your AI skin coach, reads that history to personalize recommendations for you, so your routine is built on your data instead of someone else's.\n\nPreorders are open at the $199 founding price until **August 16. After that, the price only goes up**.  \n\n\n\n## ❌ The problem\n\nAnthea’s sister spent eight years chasing her eczema.\n\nThe cause turned out to be dust in the carpet.\n\nNo one caught it because no one was recording anything. Her skin was reacting to her sleep, her home, her products, the air around her, and none of it existed as data. Every dermatologist that took months to see started from zero. Every product she tried was a guess.\n\nThat is the **$190B** skincare industry in one story. It runs on guessing.\n\nLumeria ends that: it captures the missing data layer that gives you the power to understand and own your skin's health data, from home.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=109979&key=user_uploads/3470868/08058377-6a96-414b-b03e-44ff36f8622a)\n\n## 🔬 How it works\n\nThe Lumoscope shrinks the multi-spectrum imaging dermatology clinics use into a clip for your phone. Press it against your skin and see yourself in three kinds of light: true color (RGB), UV, and cross-polarized.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=109979&key=user_uploads/3470868/76776eef-52f9-4416-827c-36c74760f8dd)\n\nFor the first time, you see what your mirror can't: a breakout building days before it surfaces, sun damage hiding under flawless-looking skin, where inflammation is building up.\n\nEach scan becomes an objective read (hydration, redness, evenness, pigmentation, texture, pores) plus a score out of 100 and a skin age, so you can understand your progress.\n\nTrack them over time, and Lumi tells you exactly what to do. \n\n* It finds the cause, linking your breakouts to habits you'd never think of, from your sleep to your cycle to the pillowcase you forgot to wash. \n* It recommends products from a database of 18000+ products + ingredients, matched to what your scans actually show works.\n* It hands your dermatologist 90 days of images, trends, and context in one tap.\n* And it compounds: every scan adds to a history and increased understanding of your skin’s relevant context.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=109979&key=user_uploads/3470868/c36570ca-4042-47bc-beb4-5f1a27014d6a)\n\n It works across every skin tone. It is private and encrypted by default. \n\n## 👥 Why we built this\n\nAnthea, our CTO, lived with this problem: suffering from eczema that would not heal, five months to reach a dermatologist, four misdiagnoses. She is an engineer who worked on computational biology at Google and Boehringer Ingelheim. Maryanne, our CEO, is a skincare creator with 25M+ views across her UGC portfolio, exited her first biotech company by 19, and still could not explain her own breakouts until Lumeria. We understand the helplessness people feel with their skin, so we built what was needed.\n\nWe are patent pending, shipping in Fall 2026, and built on 150+ interviews and 2 clinical partnerships with dermatologists and patients.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=109979&key=user_uploads/3470868/d7da4795-da8c-4edd-8c96-58e540656067)\n\n## 🚀 Why preorder right now\n\nThis is the best moment there will ever be to own a Lumoscope:\n\n* **$199 until August 16.** The founding price is the lowest it will ever be, and it will go up to 329 otherwise. \n* **Founding preorders are first in line.** Units ship Sep - Oct 2026, ahead of general release.\n* **3 months of Premium free** plus a 30-day money-back guarantee.\n* **Founding member, not a ticket number:** a direct line to us and a real say in what we build next.\n* **Your skin data compounds from day one:** the earlier you set your baseline, the sooner your recommendations are built on your skin instead of averages.\n\nPreorder now at \n\nSee what Lumi has to say about your skin, and own your skin’s story today. ☀️\n\n💛 Reach out to us: [maryanne@lumeria.skin](mailto:maryanne@lumeria.skin) & [anthea@lumeria.skin](mailto:anthea@lumeria.skin)", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Sbr-lumeria-what-if-there-was-an-oura-ring-for-skin", "votes": 26, "created_at": "2026-08-12T14:00:00.255Z" } ] }, { "id": 35127, "name": "Rhem Labs", "slug": "rhem-labs", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/36cbf39bb5d034d7765e7ee595b7fac4dc2358e5.png", "website": "https://rhem.ai", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Rhem Labs builds smart home care devices that help older adults and people with complex care needs live independently. 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Small changes in health and routine can go unnoticed for weeks or months, until the first obvious sign is something serious. Rhem is a tabletop robot that helps families see those changes earlier, while giving parents the everyday support they need to stay independent longer. Rhem was designed with older adults in mind, but it’s for anyone who wants help getting things done and staying on top of their health.**\n\nPreorders are open now at \n\n\n\n## \n\n## The Problem\n\n**At some point, you start paying attention to your parents differently.**\n\nMaybe there was a scare. Maybe Mom missed an appointment. Maybe Dad sounds more tired. Or maybe nothing happened at all. You just start wondering whether everything is as fine as they say.\n\nIf you don’t live with them, you mostly get snapshots: a call, a text, a FaceTime.\n\n**You don’t see the full day.**\n\nYou don’t know if routines are slipping, something is getting harder, or a small change is becoming a pattern.\n\n**We learned this the hard way with my grandmother.**\n\nBefore her stroke, she was sleeping badly, talking less, and seemed unlike herself.\n\nThe signs were there. But my dad had a newborn and a full-time job. My grandfather was working too. Everyone cared, but no one saw the whole picture.\n\n**We each saw pieces. No one put them together until something much bigger happened.**\n\n## **How it works for your parents**\n\nRhem lives in the home and becomes the easiest way for your parent to get things done and keep track of their health.\n\nThey just need to say:\n\n“Remind me after dinner.”\n\n“When is my appointment?”\n\n“Order our usual groceries.”\n\n“Tell Jacob I need a ride tomorrow.”\n\nRhem can browse websites, make calls, manage reminders, answer questions, place supported orders, and follow up.\n\n**If it doesn’t require a pair of hands, Rhem can probably handle it.**\n\nThey can also take supported wellness readings on Rhem, keep track of routines, and see how things change over time.\n\nWhen something needs you, **Rhem brings you into the loop through the rhem connect app.** You can answer a question, add context, or help finish the task. **Help Rhem once, and it remembers how to do it next time.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=117929&key=user_uploads/1690205/9adf4655-4900-4fe0-bdec-29e333c8a3dd)\n\n## **How it works for families**\n\nYour parent gets an assistant. **You get a clearer picture of how they’re doing.**\n\nThe Rhem app brings together health readings, routines, requests, completed tasks, and alerts. You can see what changed, what Rhem handled, and when you’re needed.\n\nFrom anywhere, you can send reminders, leave voice messages, ask Rhem to check in, talk to your parent, or ask about information they’ve shared.\n\nOver time, Rhem helps you spot patterns. **One bad night may mean nothing. A month of worse sleep, missed appointments, and changes in routine is something you want to know about.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=117929&key=user_uploads/1690205/c7652236-3ca9-40a0-9ea8-d1e2160852fc)\n\n## **Why we built Rhem**\n\n**We’re a father-and-son team, and our family spent nearly two decades caring for loved ones at home.**\n\nBefore my grandmother had a stroke, there were signs that something was changing. She was sleeping badly, talking less, and seemed unlike herself. We all noticed pieces of it, but nobody had the full picture until much later.\n\nMy aunt had a different problem. A brain tumor left her with limited mobility, so a lot of everyday things depended on someone else being available. Making a call. Looking something up. Ordering something. Figuring out what needed to happen next.\n\nA lot of the time, she didn’t need someone physically next to her. She needed someone who could help her get things done.\n\nThat’s where Rhem came from.\n\n**We wanted something that could notice when things were changing, help with the everyday stuff, and bring family in when they were actually needed.**\n\nThe goal is simple: give our parents more independence, while letting us spend more time being their family instead of managing everything around them.\n\n## **Team**\n\nJacob: Berkeley CS & DS, researcher at Berkeley AI Robotics Lab with a focus on full stack autonomous driving and edge computing, founding engineer at Mattoboard.\n\nHuey: Executive leader with 30+ years of experience building smart hardware with embedded software at scale and leading global operations across North America, Europe, and Asia. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=117929&key=user_uploads/1690205/2ae2c872-97c6-4ff3-9c05-dde53439c9b4)\n\n## Why order now\n\nIf you’re ordering a Founding Edition, thank you.\n\nWe know we’re asking you to trust a new company and buy something for someone you care deeply about. We don’t take that lightly.\n\n**Every Founding Edition includes:**\n\n* **Founding Price of $1099 before our price increase to $1499 on Jan 20th**\n* **1 x Halo Non-wearable Fall Detector ($80 Value)**\n* **2 years of Rhem Plus included ($480 Value)**\n* **2 x Merch Pack & Goodies**\n* **Direct access to our team** for setup, questions, and feedback\n\n**Thank you for being here at the beginning. 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