FINNY AI YC Application

Summer 2024Active

FINNY AI went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2024 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 2024
Industry: FintechAsset Management
Team size: 28
Status: Active
Launched: 2024

Founders

Eden OvadiaFounder
Theodore JansonFounder
Victoria ToliFounder

What FINNY AI does

FINNY is the AI-native organic growth engine for financial advisors, focused on helping them grow their practices Our goal is to empower financial advisors to reach the right potential clients at the right time, with the right message. We are building a world where anyone who wants financial advice can connect with the right advisor, while helping advisors ensure organic growth, the most existential problem advisors face. The organic growth process has historically been highly inefficient and full of noise. Advisors often waste 60+ hours of business development to convert 1 new client. At FINNY, we are certain we can do better with AI. With our tool, advisors can: - Identify prospects within their target niche, aggregating thousands of data points per lead - Prioritize prospects based on their predicted likelihood of converting using F-Score, a score unique to each advisor and prospect pair - Automate the outreach and meeting scheduling with their high priority prospects In essence, FINNY does all the rote work for the advisors, letting them focus on what actually matters: the client relationship.

FINNY AI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

FINNY AI, Summer 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

FINNY AI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The organic growth engine for financial advisors

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

We are building FINNY, an AI-native platform that helps financial advisors grow their practices by identifying and prioritizing prospects within their target niches, then automating outreach and meeting scheduling. Our product aggregates thousands of data points per lead and delivers a personalized conversion score for each advisor-prospect pair, letting advisors focus on client relationships rather than tedious business development.

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

We live in New York, NY and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is the financial hub where our users and customers are concentrated. Being local to financial advisors helps us understand their workflow and build a product tailored to their pain points.

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 FINNY AI YC application?

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