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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 Finance

PINA Indonesia

Seed Round in 2022
PINA Indonesia operates as a personal finance app.

Formance

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

Sribuu

Seed Round in 2022
Sribuu is an Indonesia-based personal financial application aimed at enhancing users' financial literacy and management skills. The app provides tools for recording and analyzing spending by automatically tracking transactions from major banks and e-wallet services. This functionality helps users monitor their income and expenses more effectively. By offering personalized recommendations based on individual financial habits, Sribuu empowers users to make informed financial decisions and develop better money management strategies.

Koshex

Seed Round in 2022
Koshex, pioneer AI-first personal finance system, an intelligent insights-driven product that helps you understand your money movement in real-time. Koshex gives you wings to spend, save, and manage your money in a smart, affordable, and reliable way. It looks into the best financial interests of each customer in a way that embraces the unique individuality of their lives. Investing is just one part of your financial picture. So, we've introduced more ways to reach your goals and manage your money.

Soon

Pre Seed Round in 2022
The GratiFi platform delivers an all-in-one fintech solution that balances spend, save, and invest through monthly cash flow. GratiFi simplifies your financial life by pairing deposits with investments, spend with liquidation, and savings with realized gains. Make your spending money go further and invest smarter, just by using GratiFi’s free smart debit account.

Infina

Seed Round in 2022
Infina is an investment platform that engages in real estate and financial services.

LemFi

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Lemonade Finance is a digital bank for the African diaspora. We provide our users with accounts in their country of residence and country of origin for personal and business banking needs.

LemFi

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Lemonade Finance is a digital bank for the African diaspora. We provide our users with accounts in their country of residence and country of origin for personal and business banking needs.

Lendflow

Series A in 2021
Lendflow provides tools to allow software companies to launch great business credit products. We provide a lending widget and API to best-in-class lending infrastructure that software companies can quickly integrate into their website or app so their business users can apply for, receive and monitor business financing.

Lendflow

Series A in 2021
Lendflow provides tools to allow software companies to launch great business credit products. We provide a lending widget and API to best-in-class lending infrastructure that software companies can quickly integrate into their website or app so their business users can apply for, receive and monitor business financing.

Formance

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

Koshex

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Koshex, pioneer AI-first personal finance system, an intelligent insights-driven product that helps you understand your money movement in real-time. Koshex gives you wings to spend, save, and manage your money in a smart, affordable, and reliable way. It looks into the best financial interests of each customer in a way that embraces the unique individuality of their lives. Investing is just one part of your financial picture. So, we've introduced more ways to reach your goals and manage your money.

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.

Fizz

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Fizz is developing a debit card application designed specifically for college students in the U.S. The service aims to help these students build their credit profiles while avoiding the pitfalls of excessive credit use. By offering features that promote responsible financial habits, Fizz empowers students to achieve financial independence and improve their credit scores. The application also includes a cash-back reward system that encourages spending within a budget, making it a practical tool for young adults navigating their financial futures. Through this innovative approach, Fizz seeks to provide students with safer avenues to establish and enhance their creditworthiness.

Fingo Africa

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Fingo is a fintech startup providing digital banking services for youth. services include current accounts, money transfers, bill payments, etc., it features link-based payments, saving goals, and real-time transactions.

Maroo

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Wedding is one of the major events in a person's life. Rarely that one is ready to compromise when deciding on the engagement ring, venue, photographer, catering, etc. Which makes weddings expensive and running over the initial budget. Broom provides you with flexibility around financing your dream wedding - from 3 to 24 months installments at no cost. You just enjoy the simple discovery of your favourite wedding providers, familiar process of booking your day in their calendar and streamlined checkout. Want to put down a credit card to collect your miles over installments period? No problem, we've got your back on this. No small fonts. No hidden fees. No budget cap. No cost for you. Find more on: www.broom.co

Finantier

Seed Round in 2021
Finantier operates an open finance platform that delivers essential infrastructure and data products for businesses in Southeast Asia. Founded in 2020 and based in Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia, the company enables institutions to access and enrich datasets from various financial sources, including banks and financial companies. Its platform facilitates services such as account integration, income and identity verification, and recurring payment management. By utilizing application programming interfaces (APIs), Finantier allows businesses to build advanced financial services that integrate consumer data from personal bank accounts, card details, loans, and mortgages. The company aims to position itself as a central player in the region's digital economy.

HonestRobin

Pre Seed Round in 2021
HonestRobin provides financial education and access to no-interest cash advance and FDIC insured & high-interest saving accounts. Through our gamified tools and weekly rewards(upto $10 Million), We encourage users to save and invest.

Jerry

Series A in 2021
Jerry is an AI financial service startup that negotiates loans and insurances for american families. The company constantly looks for savings on your fixed costs (subscriptions like insurance, loans, etc) and does all the work to negotiate better rates and paperwork to switch and save money automatically. Like all best things in life, Jerry is completely free for members!

Lendflow

Seed Round in 2021
Lendflow provides tools to allow software companies to launch great business credit products. We provide a lending widget and API to best-in-class lending infrastructure that software companies can quickly integrate into their website or app so their business users can apply for, receive and monitor business financing.

Purpose

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Purpose is a financial services provider that focuses on aligning users' financial decisions with their personal values. Through its digital banking platform, it offers a range of financial tools and resources aimed at promoting responsible banking and helping individuals grow their personal wealth. Additionally, Purpose assists businesses in securing the necessary capital and partnerships to connect with audiences that share similar ethical values. By encouraging users to support ethical businesses and brands, Purpose aims to foster a sustainable economy where financial choices reflect individual and collective values.

NowPay

Seed Round in 2021
NowPay, Inc. is a fintech company based in Cairo, Egypt, founded in 2018. It operates an online platform designed to enhance the financial wellness of corporate employees. The platform offers personal finance management services, allowing users to track savings, spending, budgeting, and borrowing. Additionally, NowPay provides a mobile application that offers detailed insights into employees' salaries, balances, and eligible loan amounts. The company partners with employers to facilitate advance salary payments, enabling employees to access their earnings at any time during the month without incurring liabilities, and to repay these advances over multiple months.

Mono

Seed Round in 2021
Mono is a financial data infrastructure company based in Nigeria, founded in 2020. It develops an application programming interface (API) platform that enables digital businesses in Africa to access customers' financial and identity data. Mono's services include generating bank statements, verifying account details, initiating payments, and conducting credit checks. The company serves a diverse range of clients, including fintech firms such as Carbon, Flutterwave, Indicina, and Renmoney, as well as various developers. Through its innovative platform, Mono aims to enhance financial accessibility and streamline transactions for businesses across the continent.

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.

Mono

Seed Round in 2021
Mono is a financial data infrastructure company based in Nigeria, founded in 2020. It develops an application programming interface (API) platform that enables digital businesses in Africa to access customers' financial and identity data. Mono's services include generating bank statements, verifying account details, initiating payments, and conducting credit checks. The company serves a diverse range of clients, including fintech firms such as Carbon, Flutterwave, Indicina, and Renmoney, as well as various developers. Through its innovative platform, Mono aims to enhance financial accessibility and streamline transactions for businesses across the continent.

Finantier

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Finantier operates an open finance platform that delivers essential infrastructure and data products for businesses in Southeast Asia. Founded in 2020 and based in Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia, the company enables institutions to access and enrich datasets from various financial sources, including banks and financial companies. Its platform facilitates services such as account integration, income and identity verification, and recurring payment management. By utilizing application programming interfaces (APIs), Finantier allows businesses to build advanced financial services that integrate consumer data from personal bank accounts, card details, loans, and mortgages. The company aims to position itself as a central player in the region's digital economy.

Jeeves

Seed Round in 2020
Jeeves is on a mission to empower businesses globally by providing a modern approach to financial services. We deliver innovative technology that allows our customers to focus on the growth of their business. We're entrepreneurs with first-hand experience starting, operating, and growing our own businesses - so we get it - and we understand the shortcomings of today's financial offerings along with the opportunities for improvement. Backed by a diverse team with experience ranging from Silicon Valley to Wall Street, we're bringing cutting edge financial solutions to you with Jeeves.

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.

Finmark

Seed Round in 2020
Finmark Financial Group specializes in developing financial planning and modeling software tailored for startups. Founded in 2020 and based in Raleigh, North Carolina, the company offers a platform that simplifies the management of financial metrics, enabling businesses to efficiently handle their runway, hiring, and cash flow. By transforming complex financial concepts into an easy-to-use interface, Finmark allows companies to update, inspect, and share their financial data seamlessly. The software serves a wide range of businesses, from pre-revenue to pre-IPO, helping teams align on financial goals, enhance collaboration, and optimize resources.

Charityvest

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Vennfi is a financial technology company for tax-exempt payments.

Clara

Seed Round in 2020
We started Clara to help individuals and families finance their lives in a more efficient, transparent, and empowered way. We started with one of life’s most important financial decisions -- a home. We are building technology to reduce the time and cost it takes to originate a mortgage and creating a more personalized, clear experience for our customers.

Fazz

Series B in 2020
Fazz Financial is a digital financial services group.

Point Card

Series A in 2020
Point Card offers rewards, including additional cash-back on go-to subscriptions like Netflix, Spotify, HBO Max, Hulu, and more. It features an advanced chipset for secure payments, a high-tensile synthetic polymer construction, and comes in your choice of four editions. It was launched in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Float

Seed Round in 2020
Swipe allows small businesses to access finance by providing them with credit using its business credit card to help cover payroll and expenses.

Jenfi

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Jenfi Pte Ltd is a financial technology company based in Singapore that specializes in providing revenue-based financing to small and medium-sized enterprises in Asia. Founded in 2019, Jenfi focuses on assisting digitally-enabled businesses, including e-commerce ventures and high-growth startups, by offering funds to enhance their sales velocity. The company enables these businesses to finance their marketing efforts, inventory needs, and growth initiatives, thereby supporting their development and expansion in a competitive market.

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.

ScholarMe

Seed Round in 2019
ScholarMe Co. develops an online financing platform for college-funding scholarships. It connects lenders and individuals for providing financing solutions, such as scholarships and education loans for coaching, tuitions, and education. ScholarMe Co. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

GradJoy

Pre Seed Round in 2019
GradJoy manages your student loans — helping you save money and be debt-free faster.

Tranqui

Seed Round in 2019
Tranqui was born from the idea that financial planning should be accessible to all , without being forced to buy a product, regardless of the interest of financial institutions, without the technicalities or prices of the financial industry.

Schoolable

Seed Round in 2019
Schoolable, a fintech company, focuses on providing access to affordable finance in the private school system in Africa. The company is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Point Card

Seed Round in 2019
Point Card offers rewards, including additional cash-back on go-to subscriptions like Netflix, Spotify, HBO Max, Hulu, and more. It features an advanced chipset for secure payments, a high-tensile synthetic polymer construction, and comes in your choice of four editions. It was launched in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Allpro Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Allpro Technologies Limited develops and operates an online platform for schools in Nigeria. The platform offers revenue collection, generates payslips, and allows schools to meet lenders. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.

SmartPath

Series A in 2019
SmartPath, LLC is dedicated to enhancing financial wellness for individuals and families through a comprehensive range of educational programs and tools. Founded in 2010 and based in Dunwoody, Georgia, the company offers webinars, live seminars, and recorded lessons that cover a wide array of personal finance topics. These include financial strategy, wealth building, budgeting, saving, and investing, as well as specific areas like homeownership, student loans, credit management, and retirement planning. SmartPath aims to provide accessible, objective, and trustworthy financial advice, particularly in light of economic disparities and challenges faced by many individuals. By combining empathetic coaching with targeted education and user-friendly digital tools, SmartPath seeks to empower people to achieve financial stability and success.

FlowFacto

Grant in 2018
FlowFacto is a fintech company that offers digital services and transformation for small and medium-sized enterprises. Through their online platform, exporters can access revolving pre-shipment financing. This financing is used to cover the cost of export order fulfillment including the purchase of goods and raw materials, payment for warehousing, and transportation of goods. FlowFacto built an automated cloud-based workflow platform to manage our financing process and a proprietary machine-learning risk algorithm that uses alternative data to create predictive models and risk performance and financial scores for lending, significantly reducing the time and requirements needed to access capital.

Fazz

Series A in 2018
Fazz Financial is a digital financial services group.

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.

Fintual

Seed Round in 2018
Fintual is a digital investment platform that caters to young professionals looking to make informed investment decisions. The company offers financial advisory services that leverage artificial intelligence to assess clients' risk profiles. Based on this analysis, Fintual provides personalized investment recommendations, helping users to navigate the complexities of investing. The platform aims to empower clients with fundamental financial knowledge, enabling them to manage and grow their investments online effectively.

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.

Fazz

Seed Round in 2017
Fazz Financial is a digital financial services group.

Jerry

Seed Round in 2017
Jerry is an AI financial service startup that negotiates loans and insurances for american families. The company constantly looks for savings on your fixed costs (subscriptions like insurance, loans, etc) and does all the work to negotiate better rates and paperwork to switch and save money automatically. Like all best things in life, Jerry is completely free for members!

Penny

Funding Round in 2017
Penny is a personal finance app that helps you track your income and spending. Penny accesses your statement history—with your permission—and uses that information to help you manage your finances. Whenever you open the app, she’ll chat with you about your finances: letting you know how you’re doing this month, forecasting where you’ll be next month, giving you a heads up about upcoming bills, or even helping you cancel services you don’t use. Penny makes finances less intimidating and stressful. Many apps have lots of useful features, but they’re often hard to use and time-consuming. Penny automatically organizes your finances, explains them simply and clearly, and tells you what you need to know, when you need to know it.

SmartPath

Seed Round in 2016
SmartPath, LLC is dedicated to enhancing financial wellness for individuals and families through a comprehensive range of educational programs and tools. Founded in 2010 and based in Dunwoody, Georgia, the company offers webinars, live seminars, and recorded lessons that cover a wide array of personal finance topics. These include financial strategy, wealth building, budgeting, saving, and investing, as well as specific areas like homeownership, student loans, credit management, and retirement planning. SmartPath aims to provide accessible, objective, and trustworthy financial advice, particularly in light of economic disparities and challenges faced by many individuals. By combining empathetic coaching with targeted education and user-friendly digital tools, SmartPath seeks to empower people to achieve financial stability and success.

Fellow

Seed Round in 2016
Fellow is creating a new way to finance working capital.They're making it possible for the best technology companies to focus on growth,recover CAC and not worry about operating expenses.

Stilt

Seed Round in 2016
Stilt Inc., a financial technology company, provides collateral free personal loans to international students and graduates. It offers loans for immigrants, visa holders, and the underserved individuals with no credit history in the United States. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Landed

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Landed, Inc. is a financial services company based in San Francisco that assists essential professionals, particularly in education and healthcare, in purchasing homes and achieving financial stability within their communities. Founded in 2015, Landed provides debt-free financing options, allowing homebuyers to receive funds in exchange for a share of their home's value upon refinancing or selling. The company collaborates with schools, employers, and affinity networks to establish and manage down payment support funds, facilitating access to homeownership for teachers, school staff, and other professionals. Additionally, Landed offers personalized support through a dedicated team, including partner agents and homebuying experts, to help clients navigate their home-buying options and provide education on the process.

Owners Circle

Seed Round in 2014
OwnersCircle provides small business owners with the online tools and financial information that they need in order to navigate the complex world of business financing. The reality is that there is no easy way to search for small business financial products, which creates a headache for already time-strapped business owners. Recent reports show that owners spend an enormous amount of time (25 hrs on average) searching and applying for loan products, with many focusing on lenders that have high rejection rates and long, complex processes.

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.