EnsoData Completes YC Fellowship

by Brian Lee

EnsoData

It’s been a whirlwind past few months for EnsoData.

After completing gener8tor’s gBeta accelerator program this summer, the Madison-based tech startup that scores sleep announced recently that it completed Y Combinator’s inaugural Fellowship program.

“I’ve been a huge YC fan for a few years,” CEO Chris Fernandez said. “We ultimately applied because it seemed like an opportunity to get some great feedback, funding and growth.”

Both Chris and Co-Founder Sam Rusk joined the other YC Fellows from Sept. 12 to Nov. 6 in Mountain View, Calif., where they received advice from the YC community and a $12,000 grant.

According to a release, EnsoData launched its autoscoring software in private beta, obtained
letters of intent from three sleep clinics and rolled out its first set of live implementations of the
software at three more sleep clinics during the program.

“We were really interested in how we could try to test and optimize for product-market fit,” Fernandez said. “Both gBETA and YC helped us achieve this–these experiences gave a lot of confidence that the product we’re making is needed by and valuable to the sleep medicine market.”