Alterya YC Application

Summer 2022Acquired

Alterya went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2022 batch as a Fintech 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 2022
Industry: Fintech
Team size: 30
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2022

Founders

Elad FouksFounder
Shahaf GonenFounder

What Alterya does

Alterya helps financial institutions, fintechs, and crypto service providers prevent APP fraud by detecting scams targeting their users and exploiting their platform.

Alterya's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Alterya, Summer 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Alterya

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Protecting Humans from Scams

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

We built a fraud detection platform that helps financial institutions, fintechs, and crypto service providers stop APP scams targeting their users and abusing their platforms. Our product analyzes user transactions and interactions to detect scam behavior in real-time and provide actionable alerts via an API and analytics dashboard.

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

We live in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel, and after YC the company would remain based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Tel Aviv is where we are rooted, with our team and most customers nearby. The fintech ecosystem here is strong, and relocating isn't necessary to build or sell our product.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Alterya YC application?

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