Payflow YC Application

Summer 2021Active

Payflow went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2021 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 2021
Industry: B2BHuman Resources
Team size: 50
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Avinash SukhwaiFounder
Benoit MenardoFounder

What Payflow does

A mobile app. It allows employees to get paid whenever they want, instead of just once a month (or biweekly). We sell it to companies as an employee benefit (B2B SaaS).

Payflow's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Payflow

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Mobile app enabling on-demand employee pay

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

We built a mobile app that lets employees access their earned salary any time instead of waiting for monthly or biweekly paychecks. We sell this as a B2B SaaS product to companies that want to offer faster salary access as an employee benefit. The app integrates with payroll systems to safely advance funds without loans or credit checks.

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

We live in Madrid, Spain, and would base the company there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Being in Madrid keeps us close to our initial customers and market while benefiting from local talent and a growing fintech ecosystem. YC would help us connect globally while we maintain this strong local footing.

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 Payflow YC application?

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