Piggy YC Application

Summer 2017Inactive

Piggy went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2017 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 2017
Industry: FintechAsset Management
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2017

Founders

Ankush SinghFounder/CEO
Nikhil Satya ManthaFounder
Kunal SangwanFounder/CTO

What Piggy does

Experience an easy way to make Investments in Mutual funds in India. Easiest platform to make mutual fund investments in India. Because you need to make Investments, be it just to park your cash short term to earn better returns, or to invest for your goals or retirement, we've made an easy to use platform for you where you can invest in any fund in India in few clicks and have track your existing investments. Furthermore, you make investments without paying any middlemen commissions and make more returns. After all, It is your money. Don't pay too much to others when you can do it on your own. We're on both Android and iOS. download the app to get started

Piggy's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Piggy, Summer 2017 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Piggy

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Platform for mutual fund investments in India

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

We built an app for Indians to invest in mutual funds and track their existing investments with ease. Users can invest directly without paying middlemen commissions, which helps them keep more of their returns. The platform works on both Android and iOS and simplifies investing whether users want short-term parking of cash or long-term goals and retirement planning.

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

We live in Maharashtra, India. The company would continue to be based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in Maharashtra because that's where we and our users are. India's mutual fund market is local and fragmented; building from here keeps us close to the regulatory environment and our customers.

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 Piggy YC application?

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