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Congratulations on your launch and good luck! I'm curious about your participation in YC accelerator and would very much appreciate if you could reflect on it (interview, pros, cons, impressions, etc.). I'm especially interested in this due to my current (passive) work on a deep tech (science-based) startup, albeit in a totally different domain, and it would be great if you could reflect on your YC journey from a deep tech startup's perspective.

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YC was immensely helpful for us in a lot of ways. Definitely happy to go into more detail offline but two things I really liked were that there are so many companies in the healthcare space now that have come out of YC and regulation is a hugely scary aspect of the field and getting advice from them on how to navigate many things saved me so much time and headache. YC also very much redefined how I personally think about an MVP and it's usually a lot more minimal than I initially realise. As the community grows bigger, a lot of this will become even better. I almost wish we were slightly further along when we started as a lot of the prolems that companies in our batch were facing are starting to affect us now that we're not in set-up mode. The key thing for me is that we have to make sure we do right by patients above all and I have to integrate that with all of the other advice that sometimes conflicted in my head.

I greatly appreciate your prompt and very helpful feedback. The aspects that you mentioned are certainly interesting and, while the regulation aspect is not a significant issue in the domain I'm concerned about, the MVP aspect is certainly very much applicable. Thank you as well for your kind offer to connect offline; I would love to chat. Please send me a quick e-mail (aleksandr.blekh@gmail.com) and I will be happy to connect.

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