Testosterone Peaks at Series B

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2 years ago

We tested 139 founders for 17 biomarkers at the YC founders reunion last year and built a dashboard with some cool (very much anonymized) stats

1. Here’s a teaser of the data (Testosterone vs. Company Stage plot): https://x.com/MikeDubrovsky/status/1842392957057663365

2. Dataset specs:

a. We were mobbed for quite a while and didn’t get to everyone but we did manage to collect 139 samples which is a decent-sized dataset. (not bad considering the average clinical trial is 20-300 participants depending on whether it's Phase I or II according to ChatGPT).

b. We measured 17 biomarkers for each participant:

ApoB, ApoA1, ApoB:ApoA1 ratio, Total Cholesterol, HbA1c, Cortisol, DHEA-S, Estradiol (female), FSH (female), Ferritin, HDL-C, LDL-C, Total Cholesterol:HDL-C ratio, Triglycerides:HDL-C ratio, TSH, Testosterone (male), Testosterone:Cortisol ratio (male), Triglycerides, Vitamin D, hsCRP, Homocysteine, Fasting Insulin

3. We'd love to run some sort of distributed version of this via folks just getting the test kit in the mail. Comment here if you want to participate. Feedback or ideas welcome too.

4. Check out the dashboard and play with the data yourself here: http://yc-stats.siphoxhealth.com/ (note it’s kind of painfully slow, we will optimize this eventually since we use this internal dashboard app for other stuff. Try reloading if it doesn’t come up in 30 seconds)

5. If you are a founder (or just curious) and have taken a recent blood test you can submit your PDF here to contribute data (just message support and let them know you uploaded and your company stage so we can add that to the metadata): https://siphoxhealth.com/upload-results