Casca YC Application

Summer 2023Active

Casca went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2023 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 2023
Industry: Fintech
Team size: 28
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Lukas HafferCEO & Co-Founder

What Casca does

Casca is building AGI for Banking. Our first product is an AI-native platform transforming small business lending by enabling banks and lenders to originate 10x more loans with 90% less manual effort. We’ve found product market fit already serving top 10 US banks and are scaling our team very quickly. Small businesses are the heart of the American economy. Many banks shy away from providing funding because of the manual effort in pursuing those deals. With us, that changes. We unlock affordable, quick bank funding for the 30M+ small businesses in the US who would otherwise be subject to the high interest rates from predatory online lenders. We are a world-class team of banking & AI experts from Stanford, MIT & Y Combinator. We like to win and we know that the only thing between us and the title is our own ability to improve every day.

Casca's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Casca, Summer 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Casca

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Make Banking Magical

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

We're building an AI-native platform to transform small business lending for banks and lenders. Our product lets them originate 10x more loans while cutting manual backend work by 90%. We automate underwriting workflows that traditionally require intense human review, unlocking affordable funding for millions of small businesses who are otherwise underserved.

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

We live in San Francisco, and Casca is based here too. After YC, we'll continue to operate out of SF to stay close to banks and our expanding engineering team.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we built our initial product and network. It's the right place to recruit AI and banking talent, work with enterprise customers, and scale fast.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Casca YC application?

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