Karbon Card YC Application

Summer 2021Active

Karbon Card 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: FintechCredit and Lending
Team size: 144
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Pei-fu HsiehFounder

What Karbon Card does

We at Karbon Cards provide corporate credit cards, vendor payment solutions and forex outward remittance products to Indian companies. We partners with banks and other FI's to provide comprehensive spend management and working capital solutions. Companies qualify for credit via a liberalized startup friendly underwriting process. For those do not qualify, we provide payments option where companies can top up and use card/vendor payment solutions.

Karbon Card's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Karbon Card

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Corporate Card solution for Indian businesses

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

We build a corporate credit card and payments platform for Indian companies. Our product offers corporate cards, vendor payment solutions, and forex outward remittance. We partner with banks to underwrite businesses through a startup-friendly process, enabling companies to access credit or prepaid payment options if they don't qualify for credit.

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

We live and are based in Bengaluru, KA, India. The company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Bengaluru is where we have market access and talent needed to build and scale fintech products for Indian businesses. It is also where our founding team is located and where the main user base is.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Karbon Card YC application?

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