Hadrius YC Application

Profile updated September 9, 2026Winter 2023Active

New York, NY, USA

Hadrius went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2023 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 2023
Industry: FintechAsset Management
Location: New York, NY, USA
Team size: 80
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Thomas StewartFounder
Allen CalderwoodFounder
Som MohapatraFounder

What Hadrius does

Hadrius allows regulated financial firms of all sizes to consolidate and automate their compliance processes using AI in one platform. Today, we're securing compliance for $3T+ AUM across our clients. We're building the AI that will regulate the US financial system and the trillions that flows through it.

Hadrius's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Hadrius, Winter 2023 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Hadrius

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Automating Securities Compliance

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

We make a SaaS platform that consolidates and automates compliance processes for regulated financial firms using AI. Our platform handles complex, evolving securities rules to reduce manual work and risk across firms managing trillions in assets.

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

We all live in New York, NY, and the company is based there now and will remain there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is where the financial industry and regulated funds are concentrated. Being close to our users and regulatory hubs is critical for building an effective compliance product.

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 Hadrius YC application?

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