Kodo YC Application

Winter 2021Active

Kodo went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2021
Industry: FintechPayments
Team size: 45
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Deepti SanghiFounder
Gaurav ThapaCo-Founder, CTO

Kodo's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Kodo, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Kodo

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Corporate card & spend management for Indian startups

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

We built a corporate card and spend management platform tailored to Indian startups. Our product helps finance teams issue cards, control expenses, and track spending in real time. This solves the manual, error-prone expense processes that many startups still struggle with in India.

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

We live in Maharashtra, India, and the company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're building for Indian startups and are located in Mumbai, which keeps us close to our customers and the local fintech ecosystem.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Kodo YC application?

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