Flinto YC Application

Winter 2018Acquired

Flinto went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2018
Industry: FintechPayments
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2017

Founders

Tiago SadaCo-Founder & CEO
Eugenio Sánchez RabiellaFounder/Head of Marketing
Alonso Garcia MolinaFounder/CTO

What Flinto does

Send money to friends, pay at merchants, and take care of your bills through your phone, even without a bank account.

Flinto's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Flinto, Winter 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Flinto

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Mexico's digital wallet

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

We built Flinto, a digital wallet app for Mexico that lets you send money to friends, pay merchants, and pay bills through your phone without needing a bank account. It targets people who lack access to traditional banking but have smartphones.

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

We live in Mexico City, and the company would be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Mexico City is where we understand the market and users best. The main challenge is building financial services for people without bank accounts here, so it makes sense to be based in one of Mexico's largest urban markets.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Flinto YC application?

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