Reclaim Protocol YC Application

Winter 2021Active

Reclaim Protocol went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2021
Industry: B2BRetail
Team size: 26
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Madhavan MalolanFounder
Sriharsha KaramchatiFounder
Subhash KarriFounder

What Reclaim Protocol does

Reclaim Protocol is a verification company that leverages advances in AI and cryptography to bring you global, instantaneous and compliant verifications. Using Reclaim Protocol, you can verify: - Education: Which university is this student enrolled in? 20k+ universities globally supported - Employment: Where is the user employed and what is their designation? Employers in all countries supported - Finances: What is the Credit Score and Accredited Investor status of the user? Again, all countries supported - Shopping: Where is the user spending, and what brands are they loyal to? Supporting all major ecommerce and travel services Once you integrate Reclaim Protocol, your users will be presented with a button similar to "Login with Google", but for the website from where we need to verify information. e.g. their university portal, their tax portals and so on. As soon as they login, Reclaim Protocol extracts the required information and verifies the integrity of it. Particularly, ensures that the user has not tampered with the data that was displayed by the website. The verification is done using zero knowledge proofs using an open sourced library!

Reclaim Protocol's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Reclaim Protocol, Winter 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Reclaim Protocol

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

User data verification across sectors

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

We build Reclaim Protocol, a platform that verifies user data like education, employment, finances, and shopping habits using zero knowledge proofs. When a user logs in through our system, which looks like "Login with Google" but taps into portals like university or tax sites, we extract and validate their information without exposing underlying data. This allows businesses - especially in employment, education, finance, and retail - to get trusted, instant verifications globally and compliantly.

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

We are based in Hyderabad, Telangana, India, with much of the team working remotely. After YC, we'll continue here with remote work, leveraging the flexibility while scaling.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Hyderabad offers a strong engineering talent pool and a good cost structure. Remote setups allow us to tap global expertise. We want to stay here to keep building efficiently and scale the team organically.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Reclaim Protocol YC application?

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