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Y Combinator

Y Combinator is a startup accelerator based in Mountain View, California, founded in 2005. It has pioneered a new funding model for early-stage startups by investing a modest amount of capital, typically around $150,000, in a large number of companies twice a year. Over a three-month program, Y Combinator collaborates closely with these startups to prepare them for investor pitches and enhance their business strategies. Each funding cycle concludes with Demo Day, where startups present to an exclusive audience of investors. Y Combinator focuses on various sectors, including business software, education, healthcare, and financial technology, among others. In addition to initial funding, it offers ongoing support through its extensive alumni network. Since its inception, Y Combinator has funded over 630 startups, contributing significantly to the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Silicon Valley and beyond.

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Gustaf Alstromer

Group Partner

Matt Bogrand

Associate, YC Continuity Fund

Timothy Brady

Partner

Craig R. Cannon

Director of Marketing

Adora Cheung

Partner

Nic Dardenne

Principal

Aaron Epstein

Group Partner

Brad Flora

Group Partner

Jared Friedman

Managing Director, Software and Group Partner

Aaron Harris

Partner

Carolynn Levy

Partner

Bradford (Brad) Lightcap

Associate, YC Continuity

Kat Manalac

Managing Partner

Eric Migicovsky

Partner

Kirsty Nathoo

Partner

Verena Prescher

Director of Finance

Geoff Ralston

president

Ali Rowghani

Managing Partner

Arnav Sahu

Principal

Michael Seibel

Managing Director

Harj Taggar

Partner

Past deals in Accounting

Formance

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Numary is an open-source financial ledger for e-commerce and fintech companies.

ContaLink

Seed Round in 2022
Contalink is an accounting, administrative and financial platform that enables accounting and accounting offices to reduce their operational load by up to 90%, provide their customers with better service through state-of-the-art technology, and eliminate license costs and Software updates. Contalink is a free platform for accounting firms and accounting professionals, as well as allowing to capture new customers and generate new sources of income.

Chipax

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Chipax is a Chilean fintech company that provides a web platform designed to simplify accounting for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The platform leverages an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to facilitate efficient business management. It offers real-time data collection from banks and tax authorities, enabling automated reporting on key financial aspects such as cash flow, income statements, and outstanding debts. Chipax enhances daily operations by providing essential tools for bank reconciliation, cash flow forecasting, and debt collection, making it easier for SMBs to maintain financial order and make informed decisions.

Formance

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Numary is an open-source financial ledger for e-commerce and fintech companies.

Tinai

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Tinai is a bookkeeping application specifically designed for small businesses, providing a comprehensive sales management service. The platform allows shop owners to securely record transactions, monitor revenue and expenditures, and manage customer credits. Additionally, Tinai enables users to control inventory operations, including the import and export of goods, as well as create product and service codes. By streamlining financial operations, Tinai assists businesses in modernizing their bookkeeping processes, ultimately facilitating better financial oversight and management.

Keeper

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Keeper makes software to help bookkeepers manage their clients' back-office.

ContaLink

Venture Round in 2021
Contalink is an accounting, administrative and financial platform that enables accounting and accounting offices to reduce their operational load by up to 90%, provide their customers with better service through state-of-the-art technology, and eliminate license costs and Software updates. Contalink is a free platform for accounting firms and accounting professionals, as well as allowing to capture new customers and generate new sources of income.

Treinta

Seed Round in 2021
Treinta is a digital ledger app for Latin American microbusinesses. Through Treinta, users can easily record transactions by assigning products from their inventory and see how their business metrics evolve in real time. The app helps owners save up to 30 minutes a day in bookkeeping related tasks and improve efficiency by over 30%. Out of the 50 million microbusinesses in LATAM, today 90% still track their sales and expenses by using pen and paper.

Treinta

Seed Round in 2021
Treinta is a digital ledger app for Latin American microbusinesses. Through Treinta, users can easily record transactions by assigning products from their inventory and see how their business metrics evolve in real time. The app helps owners save up to 30 minutes a day in bookkeeping related tasks and improve efficiency by over 30%. Out of the 50 million microbusinesses in LATAM, today 90% still track their sales and expenses by using pen and paper.

Abacum

Seed Round in 2021
Abacum is a developer of financial planning software designed to enhance productivity and strategic impact for small and medium-sized business finance teams. The platform aims to streamline workflow by automating financial planning and management reporting processes. It provides finance teams with the necessary tools to create accurate business plans, link scenarios with decisions, and generate insights across the organization. By automating routine tasks, Abacum enables businesses to manage their financial operations more efficiently, allowing teams to focus on critical decision-making. The platform facilitates collaboration among multiple stakeholders, helping finance teams to surface insights and drive execution effectively, thus improving overall organizational performance.

GimBooks

Seed Round in 2021
GimBooks offers a cloud-based and mobile-first bookkeeping and business management platform. It allows to create professional and elegant-looking invoices, quotations, purchase orders.

CashBook

Seed Round in 2021
CashBook is an online application designed to help small businesses track their income and expenses more efficiently. Founded in 2020 by Vivek Kumar and Ashutosh Pathak, the platform offers a digital solution for businesses that still rely on traditional pen-and-paper methods for record-keeping. It enables users to add entries, categorize records, and monitor their overall financial balance in real time. Additionally, CashBook features a shared network that allows multiple users to access and input data simultaneously, streamlining the bookkeeping process. This innovative approach simplifies financial management for small businesses, making it easier for them to maintain accurate and up-to-date financial records.

Treinta

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Treinta is a digital ledger app for Latin American microbusinesses. Through Treinta, users can easily record transactions by assigning products from their inventory and see how their business metrics evolve in real time. The app helps owners save up to 30 minutes a day in bookkeeping related tasks and improve efficiency by over 30%. Out of the 50 million microbusinesses in LATAM, today 90% still track their sales and expenses by using pen and paper.

Modern Treasury

Series B in 2021
Modern Treasury Corp. is a technology company that specializes in payment operations software designed to streamline and automate business payments. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, the platform allows users to initiate, monitor, and reconcile payments seamlessly through an automated program interface (API). It covers the entire payment life cycle, including initiation, approval, processing, reconciliation, and accounting. By integrating bank statements with business logic, Modern Treasury provides clients with an enriched history of financial transactions, enabling finance teams to focus on critical business challenges rather than manual reconciliation. The platform serves various industries, including real estate, healthcare, financial services, and marketplaces, empowering organizations with real-time data access and customizable workflows.

BukuWarung

Seed Round in 2020
BukuWarung is a technology startup founded in 2019 by Chinmay Chauhan and Abhinay Peddisetty in Jakarta, Indonesia. The company offers an accounting and credit management app tailored for micro-businesses, allowing them to efficiently track their financial transactions, including sales, expenses, and customer accounts. The platform integrates digital payment solutions, which facilitate cash and credit management for small merchants. By automating payment reminders, BukuWarung helps users achieve faster repayments and improved cash flow, while also providing essential business reports to enhance financial visibility. Overall, BukuWarung's services empower small businesses to maintain accurate records and streamline their financial operations.

Blue Onion Labs

Seed Round in 2020
Blue Onion Labs Inc. offers software platform for finance and accounting teams to trace and reconcile order transactions. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Albany, New York.

Maytana

Seed Round in 2020
Maytana is a financial management platform that consolidates multiple business bank accounts into a single interface, allowing users to gain a comprehensive view of their finances. The platform streamlines the management of bank accounts, payments, transactions, and cash flow, facilitating tasks such as automated cash flow monitoring and international payments. It also supports the management of treasury data and hedging contracts. By providing a command center for financial oversight, Maytana enables users to programmatically make payments, manage administrative tasks, and run queries, ultimately simplifying the financial operations for businesses with diverse banking relationships.

Spenmo

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Spenmo is a platform to help businesses manage spending by tracking company cards, automate invoice payments, and digital ledgers across transactions.

Convex

Seed Round in 2019
Ford Campbell provides corporate finance advisory services including accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping. The company was founded in 1989 and is based in Manchester, United Kingdom with additional offices in Stockport and Leeds. As of September 16, 2019, Convex Capital LLP operates as a subsidiary of Rosenblatt Group Plc.

Keeper Tax

Seed Round in 2019
Keeper Tax Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in bookkeeping software designed to help users maximize their tax write-offs. Founded in 2018, the platform uses machine learning to monitor transactions from linked bank accounts and credit cards, identifying potential tax deductions that might otherwise go unnoticed. Upon registration, each customer is assigned a dedicated bookkeeper who assists in tracking expenses and planning finances throughout the year. The service caters to a diverse clientele, including real estate agents, freelancers, rideshare drivers, and Airbnb hosts, providing a comprehensive solution for managing tax-related finances.

Keeper Tax

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Keeper Tax Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in bookkeeping software designed to help users maximize their tax write-offs. Founded in 2018, the platform uses machine learning to monitor transactions from linked bank accounts and credit cards, identifying potential tax deductions that might otherwise go unnoticed. Upon registration, each customer is assigned a dedicated bookkeeper who assists in tracking expenses and planning finances throughout the year. The service caters to a diverse clientele, including real estate agents, freelancers, rideshare drivers, and Airbnb hosts, providing a comprehensive solution for managing tax-related finances.

Modern Treasury

Seed Round in 2018
Modern Treasury Corp. is a technology company that specializes in payment operations software designed to streamline and automate business payments. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, the platform allows users to initiate, monitor, and reconcile payments seamlessly through an automated program interface (API). It covers the entire payment life cycle, including initiation, approval, processing, reconciliation, and accounting. By integrating bank statements with business logic, Modern Treasury provides clients with an enriched history of financial transactions, enabling finance teams to focus on critical business challenges rather than manual reconciliation. The platform serves various industries, including real estate, healthcare, financial services, and marketplaces, empowering organizations with real-time data access and customizable workflows.

Abacus

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Abacus helps financial services companies reduce long back-and-forth onboarding sessions, eliminate inefficient data collection, and streamline compliance workflows.

Fondo

Seed Round in 2018
Fondo helps with bookkeeping and beyond so founders can grow their businesses with more resources. The company strives to help founders build an enduring business by taking work off of their plate, providing them with the data needed to make key business decisions, and making sure the startup is in compliance at the state and federal level.

Betterfin

Seed Round in 2017
Betterfin, Inc. develops financial management tool for business owners to access financial products, capital markets data, and manage financial information. It offers spending patterns tracking, business monitoring, data security, loan and automated cashflow information, and automated reports. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Plate IQ

Series A in 2017
Plate IQ is accounts payable automation software designed for restaurants. It saves time, increases data accuracy, and provides insight into spend by extracting line item data from invoices and automatically coding purchases to GL accounts. Invoice data also powers: *Approvals - Create custom approval policies for invoices. *Bill Pay - Manage payments via ACH or paper check. *Statements - Reconcile vendor statements automatically. *Reporting - Gain up-to-date cost and vendor pricing insights. Plate IQ integrates with top accounting and inventory software, virtually eliminating data entry from the AP process.

Veryfi

Seed Round in 2017
Veryfi, Inc. develops bookkeeping automation software. It offers Veryfi, an artificial intelligence bookkeeping automation software that is used for the automation of time and materials for architecture, engineering, construction workforce; and data extraction and automation of receipts, bills, and invoices. The company serves healthcare businesses, property investors, Uber and Lyft drivers, self-employed, small businesses and startups, and accountants. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Mateo, California.

Sway Finance

Seed Round in 2016
Sway is bringing artificial intelligence to the accounting industry. Please message hello@swayfinance.com to learn more.

Plate IQ

Seed Round in 2015
Plate IQ is accounts payable automation software designed for restaurants. It saves time, increases data accuracy, and provides insight into spend by extracting line item data from invoices and automatically coding purchases to GL accounts. Invoice data also powers: *Approvals - Create custom approval policies for invoices. *Bill Pay - Manage payments via ACH or paper check. *Statements - Reconcile vendor statements automatically. *Reporting - Gain up-to-date cost and vendor pricing insights. Plate IQ integrates with top accounting and inventory software, virtually eliminating data entry from the AP process.

Payable

Seed Round in 2015
Payable helps thousands of contractors get paid faster and more efficiently. Much more than payments, we're on a mission to strengthen the 1099 workforce by making invoicing, work-tracking, onboarding, and calculating earnings and taxes as simple as possible for both contractors and the companies they work with. Apps are available for iOS, Android, and Web.

Zen99

Seed Round in 2014
Zen99 is an all-in-one dashboard to manage your 1099 work. We help with tracking finances, estimating/minimizing taxes, and getting insurance - things every contractor is required by law to do, but struggles to figure out due to complex regulations. Why contractors? They’re about to be over 40% of the workforce, and are growing at twice the rate of traditional employees. Our platform serves contractors both in service industries (rideshare drivers, web development and creative services, athletic trainers, etc) and in asset-based industries (Airbnb hosts, Ebay sellers, etc). Ultimately, we make it easier to manage being a contractor, and allow people greater control over their economic freedom.

Payable

Seed Round in 2014
Payable helps thousands of contractors get paid faster and more efficiently. Much more than payments, we're on a mission to strengthen the 1099 workforce by making invoicing, work-tracking, onboarding, and calculating earnings and taxes as simple as possible for both contractors and the companies they work with. Apps are available for iOS, Android, and Web.

Zen99

Seed Round in 2014
Zen99 is an all-in-one dashboard to manage your 1099 work. We help with tracking finances, estimating/minimizing taxes, and getting insurance - things every contractor is required by law to do, but struggles to figure out due to complex regulations. Why contractors? They’re about to be over 40% of the workforce, and are growing at twice the rate of traditional employees. Our platform serves contractors both in service industries (rideshare drivers, web development and creative services, athletic trainers, etc) and in asset-based industries (Airbnb hosts, Ebay sellers, etc). Ultimately, we make it easier to manage being a contractor, and allow people greater control over their economic freedom.

inDinero

Seed Round in 2010
inDinero, Inc. is a cloud-based accounting and tax software provider that caters to small business owners and entrepreneurs in the United States. Founded in 2009, the company aims to simplify financial management by automating everyday bookkeeping tasks and delivering essential financial insights. Its software enables users to track expenses, categorize transactions, and conduct month-end and year-end reconciliations, while also handling tax preparation and filing. inDinero operates on a flat pricing model and offers a financial dashboard to help users gain a clearer understanding of their finances, ultimately assisting them in reducing unnecessary costs and increasing profitability. The company is headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with additional offices in San Jose, Boston, Los Angeles, and New York.