Rally YC Application

Winter 2025Active

Rally went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2025 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 2025
Industry: Fintech
Team size: 5
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Nick Telecki
Thiago Peres

What Rally does

Rally is a financial platform for businesses that operate vehicle fleets. We're starting in Europe, where over €1 trillion is spent annually on fuel, charging, maintenance, and other fleet expenses - most of it still running on legacy networks built in the 1960s. We set a new standard for fleet finance by streamlining payments and automating workflows across bookkeeping, credit, and driver payroll, helping real-world businesses like delivery services, construction crews, and service technicians stay in control and operate efficiently.

Rally's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Rally, Winter 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Rally

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Financial OS for Modern Fleets

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

We built a financial platform for businesses that operate vehicle fleets. It automates payments and workflows around bookkeeping, credit, and driver payroll to help fleet managers control spending on fuel, maintenance, and more. Our early users are delivery services, construction crews, and service technicians in Europe, where the fleet finance market still relies on legacy systems from the 1960s.

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

We live in Berlin, Germany, and the company will be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Berlin is where we are located and know the logistics market well. Europe has a huge fleet expense market, and being here lets us stay close to our users and key markets.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Rally YC application?

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