Boya YC Application

Winter 2022Active

Boya 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: Fintech
Team size: 9
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Alphas SinjaFounder
Robert NyangateFounder

What Boya does

Boya Makes it easy for businesses in Africa to issue corporate expense cards instantly and great software to control and track spending. For example, if you run a pharmaceutical company, you can use Boya to instantly issue Visa cards to sales and marketing teams and get real-time visibility and control over their spending. 50M+ businesses in Africa have no easy way to streamline and track their employee spending in real-time. So we are building a corporate card and a spend management platform that enables businesses to streamline spend workflows and provide real-time reporting. We are building the first corporate card that supports mobile money, banks and card schemes payment workflows

Boya's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Boya

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Corporate expense cards and spend management for Africa

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

We are building a corporate card and spend management platform designed for African businesses. Our product lets companies instantly issue Visa cards to employees and track spending in real time, including support for mobile money, banks, and card payments. It helps teams like sales and marketing control expenses and streamlines the financial workflows businesses struggle with.

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

We live in Nairobi, Kenya, and will keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Nairobi is home to our core team, the initial market for our product, and where we have direct access to customers in African businesses. Staying here helps us stay close to users and partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Boya YC application?

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