Capix YC Application

Summer 2022Active

Capix 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: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Bruno JacobFounder

What Capix does

Capix makes finding private equity firms fast and accurate by aggregating and enriching data from multiple sources into one customizable platform.

Capix's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Capix

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-powered private equity intelligence

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

We built a platform that aggregates and enriches data from multiple sources to make finding private equity firms fast and accurate. Our product is customizable so investment professionals can tailor the data to their specific needs and save hours of manual research.

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.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is where our target users - private equity and finance professionals - work. Being close to them lets us iterate quickly and build relationships.

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 Capix YC application?

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