Aleph YC Application

Summer 2021Active

Aleph went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2021 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 2021
Industry: B2BFinance and Accounting
Team size: 30
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Albert GozziFounder
Santiago Perez De RossoFounder

What Aleph does

Aleph helps top finance teams work with their data in real time. Businesses can automate financial models and streamline budgeting and forecasting with the fastest-to-implement FP&A platform. Aleph eliminates the need to export data from multiple sources by syncing spreadsheet models with data from 150+ integrations, and allows teams to interact with their data in no-code dashboards. From annual budgeting to ad hoc reporting, scale your financial processes faster with better data without expanding your team. See why over 90% of people who start a trial with Aleph become customers!

Aleph's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Aleph, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Aleph

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

One source of truth for financial data

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

We built a financial planning and analysis platform that syncs real-time data from over 150 sources directly into spreadsheet models. It removes manual exports and lets finance teams automate budgeting, forecasting, and reporting without coding. Users interact with their financial data through no-code dashboards, making their workflows faster and less prone to error.

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

We live in New York, NY and the company is based there with remote team members.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is where we started and where most of our team is located, but we embrace remote collaboration to access talent beyond a single city.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Aleph YC application?

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