Carbon-12 Labs YC Application

Winter 2020Inactive

Carbon-12 Labs went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2020 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 2020
Industry: FintechPayments
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2022

Founders

Gavin MaiFounder

Carbon-12 Labs's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Carbon-12 Labs, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Carbon-12 Labs

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

A Global Payouts API for Startups

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

We built a payouts API that helps startups send money internationally. It handles compliance, multiple currencies, and different payout methods to simplify cross-border payments. Startups use it to automate paying contractors, vendors, and users without dealing with complex banking and regulations.

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

We don't have a fixed location now. If accepted, we would base the company where YC recommends or where it makes the most operational sense.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're remote currently to keep costs low and access talent globally. Post-YC, we'd relocate based on YC guidance or wherever we can best engage with the investor and startup ecosystem.

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 Carbon-12 Labs YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Carbon-12 Labs's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Carbon-12 Labs would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.