Axiom YC Application

Winter 2025Active

Axiom went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2025 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: Winter 2025
Industry: FintechConsumer Finance
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Henry ZhangFounder
Preston EllisFounder

What Axiom does

Axiom is the trading platform for decentralized finance and currently offers memecoins, perpetuals, and yield. Since launch we've hit 10M MRR and 5M monthly net profit.

Axiom's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Axiom, Winter 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Axiom

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Trade memecoins, perpetuals, and earn yield.

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

We built a trading platform focused on decentralized finance that lets users trade memecoins and perpetual contracts, plus earn yield on their assets. It simplifies DeFi trading for retail traders who want access to these markets without complicated setups or fragmented apps.

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

We don't have a fixed base; the team works remotely. After YC, we will likely remain remote with operations flexible and global.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We want to remain remote to tap into talent worldwide and because our product targets a global, online audience in crypto and DeFi markets.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Axiom YC application?

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