Finary YC Application

Winter 2021Inactive

Finary 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: FintechAsset Management
Team size: 6
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2021

Founders

Roger CawdetteCo-Founder & CEO
Darian BhathenaFounder
Michael LiuFounder
Jack PhiferFounder

What Finary does

Finary makes investing social by bringing together your portfolio and friends. Chat, hangout, and collaborate on investments.

Finary's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Finary

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Discord for investing.

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

We built a social platform that connects your investment portfolio with your friends. Finary lets users chat, hang out, and collaborate on investments in real time while tracking their assets together.

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

We live in New York, NY, and the company is based here. After YC, we plan to remain in New York.

Explain your decision regarding location.

NY is where the founding team lives and where our early users are. Staying local helps us iterate quickly and build a community that cares about investing.

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 Finary YC application?

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