Wink Health
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Wink Health was a Y Combinator (Winter 2015) digital health startup founded by Darwin Lo and Chris Turitzin, billing itself as 'the digital sleep clinic'. It offered a mobile app that 'listened' for sleep apnea risk, paired with telehealth consultations with doctors and treatments shipped to patients' homes - aiming to remove barriers to diagnosis and treatment for a condition where about 90% of sufferers go untreated. It raised $248,000 in angel funding.
02 / Wink Health FAILURE REASONS
Failure reasons
Wink Health never reached sustainable commercialization. PitchBook lists it as 'Out of Business' as of September 26, 2018, and Y Combinator's company directory marks its status as Inactive, with the YC company database listing it as Dead. No public shutdown announcement was made.
03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
Wink Health is founded by Darwin Lo and Chris Turitzin and joins Y Combinator's Winter 2015 batch as 'the digital sleep clinic'.
- Angel funding
The company raises $248,000 in angel funding in October 2015.
- Out of business
PitchBook records Wink Health as 'Out of Business' as of September 26, 2018; YC marks it Inactive/Dead.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
- 01
In 2015, Darwin Lo and Chris Turitzin founded Wink Health and joined Y Combinator's Winter 2015 batch as 'the digital sleep clinic'.
- 02
The company raised $248,000 in angel funding in October 2015.
- 03
PitchBook records Wink Health as 'Out of Business' as of September 26, 2018; Y Combinator marks it Inactive/Dead.