Sandbox Banking YC Application

Winter 2017Acquired

Sandbox Banking went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2017
Industry: FintechBanking and Exchange
Team size: 33
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2016

Founders

Ravi BalasubramanianFounder/CEO
Skye IsardFounder/CTO

What Sandbox Banking does

Sandbox Banking provides a low-code platform to quickly build and run banking integrations. Our software is literally a web application named Glyue, and it's typically used by banks, credit unions, and fintechs to connect banking systems. Glyue integrations are often web service APIs, batch ETL jobs, file/document transfer jobs, or event-driven pub/sub services (e.g. web hooks, Kafka streaming data pipelines).

Sandbox Banking's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Sandbox Banking, Winter 2017 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Sandbox Banking

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Low-code integration platform for banking

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

We built Glyue, a low-code web app that lets banks, credit unions, and fintechs build and run integrations with banking systems quickly. It supports connecting APIs, batch ETL jobs, file transfers, and event-driven services like web hooks or Kafka pipelines. The product focuses on eliminating the complexity of banking integrations for financial institutions and fintech platforms.

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

We live in Boston, MA and Los Angeles, CA, with a remote team. After YC, the company would remain based in these locations and continue remote work.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are distributed between Boston and LA because that's where our founders and team are located. This allows us to tap into different fintech communities and talent pools while staying connected remotely.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Sandbox Banking YC application?

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