Shield Bio went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2016 batch, describing itself as Bringing 3rd generation, nanopore sequencing to healthcare to solve…. Y Combinator's company directory lists it as Inactive. The directory does not say why a company stopped, and this page does not guess.
- Batch
- Summer 2016
- What they did
- Bringing 3rd generation, nanopore sequencing to healthcare to solve…
- Industry
- Healthcare
- Team size
- 28
- Based
- San Francisco, CA, USA; San Jose, CA, USA
- Status
- Inactive, as listed by Y Combinator
Its batch
Summer 2016 had 102 companies in YC's listing: 42 Active, 23 Acquired, 1 Public and 36 Inactive, so Shield Bio is one of 36 companies from that batch listed as Inactive (35%). Across YC batches at least two years old, 23% of companies are listed Inactive.
Statuses are Y Combinator's own listing in its public company directory, read on the date shown. YC's directory can drop companies altogether, so the Inactive counts here are a floor, not a full count of companies that stopped. Acquired and Public are as YC lists them; neither says anything about the price or the outcome for founders.
The record: Shield Bio in the Y Combinator directory. Measured 2026-09-26 from Y Combinator's company directory.
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