Cash Flow Portal YC Application

Winter 2022Active

Cash Flow Portal went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 batch as a Real Estate and Construction 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: Real Estate and ConstructionHousing and Real Estate
Team size: 19
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Perry ZhengFounder

What Cash Flow Portal does

Cash Flow Portal is an investment management platform for real estate. We launched 5 months ago, and we have 6-figure ARR, growing 50% month over month, with 300 syndicators and 3,000 investors. We’ve grown quickly because I am a syndicator myself. Having raised $20MM for my own deals, I know how painful it is to manually prepare Docusigns, send wire instructions and wrangle investors. I also happen to be friends with 2,000 other syndicators just like me needing a solution for managing their investors. I’m not just a syndicator. I spent most of my career as an engineering leader at Lyft, Twitter, and Amazon. $20K ARR per syndicator gives us a $2B TAM. Having achieved my own financial freedom through real estate investing, our mission is to serve all real estate investors and help them achieve financial freedom.

Cash Flow Portal's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Cash Flow Portal, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Cash Flow Portal

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Investment management platform for real estate

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

We built a platform that helps real estate syndicators manage their investor communications, documents, and payments. It automates tasks like preparing DocuSigns and sending wire instructions. It's designed to save syndicators time and headaches managing deals and investors.

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

We live primarily in Seattle, WA, and plan to base the company there with remote team members.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Seattle is where Perry lives and has built his network of syndicators. The company also supports remote work to pull talent from outside the city.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Cash Flow Portal YC application?

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