InterPrime YC Application

Winter 2019Acquired

InterPrime went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2019 batch as a B2B 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 2019
Industry: B2BFinance and Accounting
Team size: 3
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2018

Founders

Kanishka MaheshwariFounder

What InterPrime does

Manage your money like a Fortune 500 company, whether you are about to IPO or still working in a garage. Dealing with financial institutions is painful. Yet it’s critical to keep your corporate cash safe & earning a reasonable rate of return. InterPrime helps you do that. InterPrime helps you 1. Keep your cash safe 2. Earn a reasonable rate of return on your money 3. Assure your investors that you will responsibly steward their capital More details at

InterPrime's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

InterPrime, Winter 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

InterPrime

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Safe & Secure Cash Management for Businesses

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

We built a platform that helps businesses manage their corporate cash safely, earn a reasonable rate of return, and provide transparency to investors. InterPrime solves the problem of painful interactions with financial institutions by making cash management straightforward and secure for startups and companies at any stage.

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

We live and work in Menlo Park, California, and the company would stay based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Menlo Park keeps us close to key financial institutions, investors, and the fintech ecosystem that supports our product.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real InterPrime YC application?

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