Increase YC Application

Summer 2020Active

Increase went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2020 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 2020
Industry: FintechBanking and Exchange
Team size: 15
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Darragh BuckleyFounder

What Increase does

Modern banking infrastructure that enables technology companies to programmatically store, move, and reconcile money.

Increase's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Increase, Summer 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Increase

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Enterprise-grade banking APIs

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

We build modern banking infrastructure that allows technology companies to programmatically store, move, and reconcile money through our APIs. Our product replaces legacy banking rails with programmable endpoints tailored for fintechs and platforms requiring reliable bank integration.

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

We currently operate remotely with no fixed base. After YC, we plan to continue operating distributed, focusing on talent and customer proximity rather than a single location.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We want the flexibility to attract engineers and customers globally. Banking infrastructure is complex, and talent in this niche isn't concentrated in one place. Remote lets us scale efficiently.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Increase YC application?

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