Mochatrade YC Application

Spring 2026Active

Mochatrade went through Y Combinator in the Spring 2026 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: Spring 2026
Industry: FintechConsumer Finance
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Parth MaheshwariFounder
Chetan MandaFounder
Utkarsh SinhaFounder

What Mochatrade does

Mochatrade lets global traders trade perpetual futures on US stocks with up to 20x leverage. Access 50+ US stocks including TSLA, NVDA, AAPL. Mocha is fully self-custodial and no US brokerage account is needed. Traders on-ramp in local currencies and get professional-grade execution on the world's most liquid equities. Starting with India (140M+ demat account holders), and expanding across other markets.

Mochatrade's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Mochatrade, Spring 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Mochatrade

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

US stock perps for global traders

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

We built Mochatrade to let traders outside the US access perpetual futures on US stocks with up to 20x leverage. Traders can trade over 50 popular stocks like TSLA, NVDA, and AAPL without a US brokerage account. Our platform is fully self-custodial and supports fiat on-ramps in local currencies. We started focusing on India, where over 140 million demat account holders want better access to US equity derivatives, and plan to expand into other countries.

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

We live in New York, NY and plan to base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York is a major financial hub with access to talent and customers for fintech products like ours. Being here keeps us close to markets and infrastructure we integrate with and helps with fundraising and hiring.

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 Mochatrade YC application?

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