Sway Finance YC Application

Summer 2016Inactive

Sway Finance went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2016 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: Summer 2016
Industry: B2BFinance and Accounting
Team size: 2
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2016

Founders

Ashwin KumarFounder/CEO
Catherine JueFounder/CTO

What Sway Finance does

Sway is bringing artificial intelligence to the accounting industry. Its first product is an automated bookkeeping service for SaaS companies. We use a combination of proprietary machine learning models and API integrations to bring our delightfully low-touch experience to the accounting industry. Learn more:

Sway Finance's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Sway Finance, Summer 2016 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Sway Finance

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-powered automated bookkeeping for SaaS

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

We built an automated bookkeeping service tailored for SaaS companies. Our product combines proprietary machine learning models with API integrations to reduce manual accounting work, making bookkeeping low-touch and more accurate for startups in the SaaS space.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, and the company will be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where our network and early customers are, and it's the best place to build and scale a B2B fintech product focused on accounting.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Sway Finance YC application?

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