CashBook YC Application

Winter 2021Active

CashBook went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 batch as a B2B 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 2021
Industry: B2BFinance and Accounting
Team size: 4
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Vivek KumarFounder
Ashutosh PathakFounder

What CashBook does

Issue UPI wallets to employees, track and control the spend.

CashBook's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

CashBook, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

CashBook

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Ramp for Indian Businesses - UPI Wallets

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

We issue UPI wallets to employees so companies can track and control their expense spend. Our platform lets businesses allocate budgets, monitor transactions in real time, and restrict spending through employee-specific wallets, streamlining expense management in India's UPI ecosystem.

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

We live in Bengaluru, India, and the company will continue to be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Bengaluru is India's fintech and startup hub with access to engineering talent and relevant financial partners, making it the natural place for CashBook.

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 CashBook YC application?

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