CoinTracker YC Application

Winter 2018Active

CoinTracker went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2018 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 2018
Industry: Fintech
Team size: 70
Status: Active
Launched: 2017

Founders

Jon LernerFounder

What CoinTracker does

[CoinTracker]( makes cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and tax compliance simple. CoinTracker enables consumers and businesses to seamlessly track their cryptocurrency portfolio, investment performance, taxes, and more. We are a globally distributed team on a mission to enable everyone in the world to use crypto with peace of mind. [Learn more]( about our mission, culture, and hiring process.

CoinTracker's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

CoinTracker, Winter 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

CoinTracker

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and taxes

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

We built CoinTracker to help people track their cryptocurrency portfolios, see their investment performance, and handle tax reporting. Our product pulls together data from exchanges and wallets, solves tax calculations across many jurisdictions, and removes the manual spreadsheets that crypto users currently struggle with.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and plan to keep CoinTracker based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in San Francisco puts us close to the crypto ecosystem, investors, and engineering talent; it's the right place to build a fintech startup focused on crypto assets.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real CoinTracker YC application?

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