Notabene YC Application

Summer 2020Active

Notabene went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2020 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: Summer 2020
Industry: B2BSecurity
Team size: 47
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Pelle BraendgaardCEO/ Co-Founder
Andres JungeFounder
Ania LipinskaFounder
Alice NawfalFounder

What Notabene does

Notabene helps businesses perform crypto transactions in a regulatory compliant way. Think of us as the SWIFT network for Crypto. New global regulations for crypto transactions are here and will be enforced over the next year. Businesses now have to follow strict rules similar to banks, or shut down. We provide a SaaS platform that allows businesses to perform due-diligence on their counter-parties and manage the risk of incoming and outgoing transactions.

Notabene's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Notabene, Summer 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Notabene

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The trust layer for global money movement

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

We built a SaaS platform that helps businesses perform crypto transactions while staying compliant with new global regulations. Our product enables users to conduct due diligence on counterparties and manage regulatory risk on incoming and outgoing crypto payments.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

Crypto compliance is heavily regulated in the US, and New York is a major financial and regulatory hub. Being close to our customers and regulators here is critical for the business.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Notabene YC application?

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