Abundance Labs YC Application

Summer 2016Inactive

Abundance Labs went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2016 batch as a Consumer company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Summer 2016
Industry: ConsumerHome and Personal
Team size: 12
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2016

Founders

Kjerstin EricksonFounder/CEO

Abundance Labs's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Abundance Labs, Summer 2016 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Abundance Labs

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Builds alternative currency marketplace

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We build a marketplace for alternative currencies that connects users who want to trade or use cryptocurrency and other non-traditional money. Our platform facilitates discovery, exchange, and use of these currencies in everyday transactions.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in San Francisco now and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the cryptocurrency and marketplace engineering talent we need. Being in the center of crypto innovation is critical for partnerships and early users.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Abundance Labs YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Abundance Labs's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Abundance Labs would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.