Drahim 💰 YC Application

Summer 2022Active

Drahim 💰 went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2022 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 2022
Industry: Fintech
Team size: 8
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Sultan AlkhayalFounder
Yasser AlshurihiFounder

What Drahim 💰 does

"Drahim" is a slang for money in Arabic (from the ancient Greek Drachma). The app integrates with banks and provides individuals meaningful spending insights and generates auto savings and investment advice. For the meaningful insights, the app integrates with banks and automatically categorizes all of your transactions (All of your accounts in one place) and spots spending patterns and behaviors. Drahim then suggests a saving and investing plan that allows the user to continue living comfortably and to keep spending guilt-free. Our focus is not necessarily to save you money, rather we grow your money discreetly. Drahim allows you to continue spending but feeling way better doing it.

Drahim 💰's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Drahim 💰, Summer 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Drahim 💰

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

WealthFront for Saudi & Middle East

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

We built a personal finance app that connects directly with banks in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East to gather users' transactions. It categorizes spending across all accounts automatically and surfaces insights about spending habits. Based on these patterns, the app suggests personalized savings and investment plans that let users keep living comfortably while growing their money quietly. The key is allowing users to spend without guilt by managing their money smarter, not just harder.

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

We live in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and after YC the company would remain based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Riyadh is our home and the center of our market. It's where we understand the banking ecosystem, cultural attitudes toward money, and investing behavior best. Being local helps us build product features that truly resonate and integrate with local banks.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Drahim 💰 YC application?

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