PayCrunch YC Application

Winter 2022Active

PayCrunch went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 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 2022
Industry: FintechCredit and Lending
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Aman BhayanaFounder

What PayCrunch does

More than 150 million people in India are not able to access formal Credits in India either because of lack of financial data or low credit scores. We use Alternative Credit scoring models to provide a Pay Later option on UPI to a wider audience.

PayCrunch's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

PayCrunch, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

PayCrunch

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Credit card for college students on UPI

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

We created a Pay Later credit product on UPI for college students and others excluded from formal credit because they lack traditional financial data or credit scores. Our system uses alternative credit scoring to open access to credit over UPI payments.

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

We live and work in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, and plan to keep the company based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Bengaluru has the fintech talent and tech ecosystem we need, plus proximity to our target market in India. It's the best place to build PayCrunch.

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 PayCrunch YC application?

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