Malga YC Application

Summer 2021Active

Malga 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: FintechPayments
Team size: 46
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Alex VilhenaFounder
Thiago GarutiFounder

What Malga does

Malga gives digital businesses access to multiple payments services through a single integration, and the ability to change between them on a transaction to transaction basis without writing code.

Malga's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Malga

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

API to accept payments from multiple providers

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

We built an API that lets digital businesses accept payments through multiple providers using a single integration. Our product allows them to switch between payment services on each transaction without writing code. This removes the friction of dealing with different provider APIs and optimizes payment acceptance.

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

We live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the company is based there now. After YC, we'd likely keep the base here while expanding remotely.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Rio de Janeiro is where we live and have built our network. The local fintech scene is active, and being based here keeps us close to our initial customers and team.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Malga YC application?

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