Swipe Technologies YC Application

Winter 2020Active

Swipe Technologies went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2020 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 2020
Industry: Fintech
Team size: 20
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Jesse AhinFounder

What Swipe Technologies does

Swipe is building modern modern payments, accounting and cashflow management tools for businesses. We own and operate Float, a global b2b payments platform and Accounteer - a cloud accounting and bookkeeping platform for businesses and freelancers.

Swipe Technologies's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Swipe Technologies, Winter 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Swipe Technologies

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Modern payments, accounting & cashflow tools

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

We build Float, a global B2B payments platform, and Accounteer, cloud accounting for businesses and freelancers. Our tools help businesses manage payments, accounting, and cash flow from a single platform, solving the pain of fragmented finance software.

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

We operate from London and Accra, Ghana, and will remain based there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

London connects us to global fintech hubs and investors. Accra gives us access to talented engineers and growing African markets. This dual-location setup fits our global and emerging-market focus.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Swipe Technologies YC application?

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