Scalar Field YC Application

Spring 2025Active

Scalar Field went through Y Combinator in the Spring 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: Spring 2025
Industry: Fintech
Team size: 3
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Amandeep SinghFounder
Ramakant YadavFounder

What Scalar Field does

We’re building the agentic trading desk for the new operating system of markets. I used to be a trader at Tower Research and Goldman Sachs, and I’m building Scalar Field with my co-founder Ramakant, who led engineering teams at Microsoft. We’ve both spent our careers at the intersection of finance and technology, and we’re using that experience to rethink how markets are analyzed, tested, and traded in the age of agents. Scalar Field is built around a simple belief: over the next few years, agents will not just help people research markets - they will actively participate in them. They will monitor news, parse filings, track sentiment, test hypotheses, rebalance portfolios, and execute trades. They will turn ideas into strategies, and strategies into live portfolios. But today’s financial infrastructure was not built for that world. Terminals are dashboards. Backtesting tools are fragmented. Execution systems are separate. Market data is hard to unify. And most platforms still assume the human is the only decision-maker. Scalar Field changes that. We’re building an agentic trading platform where users can create financial agents that research data, backtest strategies, monitor market events, and trigger trades when specific conditions are met. The long-term vision is agentic ETFs: portfolios created, managed, and rebalanced by agents around any idea, narrative, event, or market signal. Scalar Field lets users go from thesis to backtest to live portfolio in one place. It is infrastructure for the agentic trading era.

Scalar Field's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Scalar Field, Spring 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Scalar Field

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Agentic trading desk for market operating systems

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

We're building an agentic trading platform where users create agents that research market data, backtest strategies, monitor real-time events, and trigger trades automatically. Our product unifies analysis, testing, and execution in one place, enabling a new class of trading powered by software agents, not just human decisions.

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

We are distributed currently; after YC, we plan to base the company where it best supports our team and growth, likely in a major tech or finance hub.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Given our backgrounds in finance and engineering, we focus on environments where technical talent and fintech innovation thrive. Location flexibility lets us hire smart people and meet investor interest.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Scalar Field YC application?

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