Proper YC Application

Winter 2022Acquired

Proper went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 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: Winter 2022
Industry: B2BFinance and Accounting
Team size: 10
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2022

Founders

Kyle MaloneyFounder
Travis GibsonFounder

What Proper does

Proper provides software & APIs to help companies manage their payments data across providers. We connect banks, API providers, and networks in a single platform and provide automated reconciliation and accounting, so companies can maintain financial accuracy at scale. Our integrated financial operating system gives companies a unified back-office data platform across their services and providers. With Proper, companies can spend less time on low-level financial system infrastructure and more time focused on building for their end-users.

Proper's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Proper

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Reconciliation and financial operations platform

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

We built software and APIs that let finance teams unify payments data across banks, APIs, and networks. Our platform automates reconciliation and accounting tasks to keep financial data accurate and consistent across all providers.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, CA, and Proper will be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our team is and where the financial and fintech ecosystem we serve is concentrated. Being here keeps us close to potential customers and partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Proper YC application?

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