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Surbhi Sarna

09/30/23

@ Y Combinator

I aimed to build my company to deliver a product that could quickly provide answers for women with complex cysts, helping them avoid unnecessary interventions if they weren't cancerous.

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How I built a $275 million biotech company from nothing

@ Y Combinator

How I built a $275 million biotech company from nothing

09/30/23

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Surbhi Sarna

09/30/23

@ Y Combinator

After experiencing a health scare in high school, I realized how antiquated women's health care was, which inspired me to start a company focused on women's health.

Surbhi Sarna

09/30/23

@ Y Combinator

To validate my concept for a new device in women's health, I reached out to gynecologists, even pretending to have a stomach ache to get an appointment with one.

Surbhi Sarna

09/30/23

@ Y Combinator

I worked as an engineer at Abbott Vascular and a smaller startup, but I felt an urge to start my own company at 24, driven by my past health experiences.

Surbhi Sarna

09/30/23

@ Y Combinator

An unexpected health scare motivated me to start my own company, which I eventually sold to Boston Scientific for $275 million.

Urska Srsen

06/01/16

@ Y Combinator

I co-founded Bellabeat, a company focused on designing beautiful and user-friendly technology for tracking women's health.

Dr. Elizabeth Iorns

03/13/14

@ Y Combinator

I started Science Exchange to solve my own problem as a breast cancer researcher who was frustrated with the process of farming out experiments.

Mathilde Collin

10/25/18

@ Y Combinator

After my co-founder was diagnosed with cancer, I realized that being happy and healthy is more important than the company itself, and I now emphasize this to new team members.

Katelyn Gleason

05/21/16

@ Y Combinator

I had no choice but to bootstrap my company for the first year. I focused on optimizing for a fast and efficient fundraising process because I was warned that a long fundraising process could kill a company.

Harvard Innovation Labs Cast

02/02/14

@ Harvard Innovation Labs

We've validated our business model by addressing a critical need in the developing world with a simple, easy-to-use, portable liver function test, which is appealing to major pharmaceutical companies.