Fintual YC Application

Summer 2018Active

Fintual went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2018
Industry: FintechConsumer Finance
Team size: 100
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Pedro PinedaFounder/CEO
Agustín FeuerhakeFounder
Omar LarréFounder
Andres MarinkovicFounder/CTO

What Fintual does

We allow people to invest. We manage +USD 2B from +200,000 customers. We are regulated in Mexico and Chile.

Fintual's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Fintual, Summer 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Fintual

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Wealth manager

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

We built a digital platform that allows people to invest their money efficiently and transparently. Our product manages portfolios for 200,000 customers, handling over USD 2 billion under management. We automate investment management and compliance, operating under regulation in Chile and Mexico.

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

We live in Santiago, Chile, and the company is based here.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Santiago is where we have existing customers and where financial regulation allows us to operate as a wealth manager. Staying here means we keep close to our market and regulators.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Fintual YC application?

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