Blue Onion YC Application

Summer 2020Active

Blue Onion went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2020 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 2020
Industry: B2BFinance and Accounting
Team size: 27
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Lyndsey BuntingFounder
Manav MalhotraFounder

What Blue Onion does

Blue Onion is the data backbone for tomorrow’s AI-powered finance teams - a subledger platform that transforms messy, scattered transactions into clean, reconciled, and automation-ready data.

Blue Onion's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Blue Onion, Summer 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Blue Onion

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Financial data layer for AI-powered finance

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

We are building a subledger platform that cleans, reconciles, and structures messy financial transactions so finance teams can automate accounting and reporting with AI. The product transforms scattered transaction data into a clean, automation-ready layer that feeds AI workflows in finance and accounting.

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

We live in New York, NY, and the company will be based here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in New York because that's where our early users and finance teams are. Being close to these customers helps us understand the problems they face and build the right product.

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.

See full application

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Blue Onion YC application?

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