Chart YC Application

Winter 2023Active

Chart went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2023
Industry: Fintech
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Fatih CelikbasFounder

What Chart does

Chart's Unified Tax Record API provides a direct bridge to tax records from the IRS, state tax agencies, and major tax preparation platforms such as TurboTax and H&R Block.

Chart's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Chart, Winter 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Chart

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Realtime Access to Verified Tax Records

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

We built Chart's Unified Tax Record API to give businesses direct, realtime access to verified tax records from the IRS, state agencies, and platforms like TurboTax and H&R Block. This removes the friction of manual tax data collection and verification.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company will be based here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco provides the network and talent pool we need to grow Chart in fintech. It's where our team is and where our customers are.

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.

See full application

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Chart YC application?

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