Infina YC Application

Summer 2021Active

Infina 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: Fintech
Team size: 50
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

James VuongFounder/CEO

What Infina does

Infina is Vietnam's leading wealth management and investing platform (like Groww of Inida and Ajaib of Indonesia). Its mission is to empower retail investors by make investing accessible, frictionless, and safe. The platform is multi-asset, offering stock trading, mutual funds, and fixed-income products, with more asset classes to be added. Infina was founded by James L. Vuong, a Silicon Valley engineer turned VC investor (IDG Ventures) and serial entrepreneur with a prior successful exit in Vietnam (Reddit of Vietnam, which was acquired by LINE corporation in 2017). Investing apps are seeing explosive growth in many markets around the world, including in Vietnam. There is a growing middle class who are hungry to invest in assets like stocks and crypto. We are building Infina to capture this huge opportunity to democratize investing in South East Asia.

Infina's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Infina

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Vietnam's top wealth management and investing app

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

We built Infina as a multi-asset investing platform that lets retail investors in Vietnam buy stocks, mutual funds, and fixed-income products with a simple interface. Our goal is to remove friction from investing and add new asset classes over time, opening access beyond traditional brokers.

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

We live in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Vietnam's market is rapidly growing with a rising middle class eager to invest. Being in Ho Chi Minh City means we are close to our users and understand the local market dynamics better than anyone else.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Infina YC application?

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