Elizabeth Iorns is cofounder and CEO of Science Exchange. She’s also a Part-Time Partner at Y Combinator.
In this interview she answers some of the most common questions YC receives from founders in biotech, such as "Why should I apply to YC?" and "Where do you put the money to work during YC?"
“What we kind of missing is the funding and the mentorship because it is a steep learning curve to navigate how you take a drug to market through all of the regulatory hurdles. If we can build a path that supports those people more effectively, that’s going to be, I think the killer sort of application. It’s going to be how do you get a lot more of these shots on goal and actually get a lot more people involved in the biotech innovation ecosystem developing companies and bringing drugs to market and not just staying in academia.”