Bifrost YC Application

Winter 2022Inactive

Bifrost went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2022
Industry: FintechAsset Management
Team size: 4
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2022

Founders

Kartik SathappanFounder
Samraaj BathFounder

What Bifrost does

We write smart contracts that can automatically transfer assets during end-of-life events. When you hold your own keys to your own wallet, your funds are lost in worst-case-scenarios. We make an on-chain dead-mans-switch to help your loved ones claim your holdings.

Bifrost's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Bifrost, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Bifrost

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Wills and Estate Management for Crypto

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

We build smart contracts that automatically transfer crypto assets when someone can no longer access their wallet due to end-of-life events. Our on-chain dead-man's-switch ensures that people who hold their own keys can securely pass funds to loved ones instead of the assets being lost forever.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team is located and where the key crypto and fintech talent clusters are. Staying here lets us tap into that ecosystem directly.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Bifrost YC application?

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