Greenboard YC Application

Winter 2024Active

Greenboard went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2024
Industry: Fintech
Team size: 26
Status: Active
Launched: 2023

Founders

Dave FeldmanFounder
Edward SchemborFounder

What Greenboard does

Greenboard is building a singular, AI-powered platform to handle management of the entirety of financial firms’ compliance programs, and eventually all back office processes. Today, financial institutions use Greenboard to detect risk using AI and to rip out and replace the bad legacy back office tooling they have wanted to get rid of for years. Greenboard's mission is to enable financial institutions to operate their back office teams at a higher standard, with half of the headcount. We’re starting with compliance

Greenboard's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Greenboard, Winter 2024 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Greenboard

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Modern OS for the financial back office

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

We are building an AI-powered platform that manages the full compliance program for financial institutions and will expand to cover all back office operations. Today, users rely on Greenboard to detect risk and replace outdated, fragmented tools that make their compliance and operations slow and error-prone.

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 there and will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in New York gives us direct access to financial institutions, which is essential to understand their back office challenges and tailor Greenboard to their needs.

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 Greenboard YC application?

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