Finantier YC Application

Winter 2021Inactive

Finantier went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 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 2021
Industry: FintechBanking and Exchange
Team size: 40
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2020

Founders

Diego RojasFounder
Keng LowFounder

What Finantier does

Finantier is Plaid for Southeast Asia, providing the infrastructure and data products required by businesses to build the next generation of financial services.

Finantier's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Finantier

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Plaid for Southeast Asia

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

We build financial infrastructure and data products that enable businesses in Southeast Asia to connect with banks and financial institutions. Our APIs let companies access financial data and build financial services without banking licenses. Essentially, we provide the backend technology needed to power fintech apps in a fragmented market with complicated integration challenges.

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

We live in Singapore and the company is based there.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Singapore is the financial hub of Southeast Asia with strong fintech activity and access to the region's markets. Being here puts us close to our customers and partners.

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 Finantier YC application?

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