Swipe YC Application

Summer 2021Active

Swipe went through Y Combinator in the Summer 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: Summer 2021
Industry: B2BFinance and Accounting
Team size: 60
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Sri Teja Allaparthi
Aditya Vemuganti

What Swipe does

Swipe is a simple billing and payments app for small businesses in India. We make it easy for local businesses to invoice their customers over WhatsApp. With Swipe, businesses can send a WhatsApp message with a link that allows their customers to pay instantly with a variety of payment methods.

Swipe's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Swipe, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Swipe

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Super AI Accountant for SMBs

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

We built a billing and payments app that small local businesses in India use to invoice customers through WhatsApp. Our product lets these businesses send a payment link via WhatsApp so their customers can pay instantly using multiple payment methods. It removes friction from the billing and collection process for small merchants who are not digitally native.

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

We live in Hyderabad, Telangana, India, and the company will be based here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Hyderabad is our home and where we built our early product and user base. We know the market here well and keep the team close-knit. We plan to keep our base here after YC because it's a good place to build our company.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Swipe YC application?

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