inai YC Application

Summer 2021Acquired

inai went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2021 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 2021
Industry: FintechPayments
Team size: 14
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2021

Founders

Anta PattabiramanFounder

What inai does

inai provides a single integration for global payments to help companies take digital payments across the globe. Its a single integration for a merchant that will provide connections to all payment gateways ( Stripe/ Adyen/ Braintree), wallets ( Paypal, Apple Pay, Google Pay), BNPL providers ( Klarna / affirm / afterpay), fraud ( Sift, riskified etc). Merchants will have a no-code dashboard to customize the checkout by region ( Show Apple pay and stripe in US along with USD pricing but show Klarna, Google Pay and Sofort in Germany with pricing in Eur for e.g) Merchants can also easily switch between providers and your data stays with you on Inai rather than with PSP like stripe making switch to Adyen or Braintree easy.

inai's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

inai, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

inai

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Segment for global payments

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

We are building a platform that lets merchants use a single integration to connect to multiple payment gateways like Stripe, Adyen, and Braintree, wallets like PayPal and Apple Pay, BNPL providers like Klarna, and fraud tools like Sift. Merchants manage this through a no-code dashboard that customizes checkout options by region and currency. They keep control of their data on inai, making it easy to switch providers without losing customers or insights.

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

We live in London, UK, Delaware City, DE, USA, and remotely. Post-YC, we plan to remain distributed across these locations.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Our team is distributed between London, Delaware, and remote because the payments market and our customers are global. Being in these locations lets us build and support integrations for different gateways and payment providers efficiently.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real inai YC application?

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