Affinity YC Application

Summer 2023Active

Affinity went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 batch as a B2B 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 2023
Industry: B2B
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Faraz RanaFounder
Peter GrecznerFounder

What Affinity does

Affinity is a compliance training platform designed specifically for regulated industries. We’ve previously built a fintech from inception to a successful exit and are leveraging that experience to solve the learning management needs of regulated tech companies from growth stage to large enterprise banks.

Affinity's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Affinity, Summer 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Affinity

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Compliance training for regulated industries

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

We built a compliance training platform tailored to regulated industries, especially regulated tech companies and banks. The platform handles learning management for compliance teams, delivering and tracking training that meets strict regulatory standards.

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

We live in New York, NY, and the company will remain based here after YC, with a distributed remote team.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We picked New York because of its concentration of regulated financial institutions, our network, and proximity to customers in fintech and banking, all of whom need better compliance training tools.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Affinity YC application?

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