Taktile YC Application

Summer 2020Active

Taktile went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2020 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 2020
Industry: B2B
Team size: 150
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Maik Taro WehmeyerFounder

What Taktile does

Taktile empowers financial institutions to quickly unlock AI-driven efficiencies across the customer lifecycle, reducing manual work while optimizing decisions and enabling seamless end-user experiences. Built for highly regulated environments, our agentic decision platform combines the speed of AI automation with the oversight of human judgement - so you can safely approve customers, catch more fraud, and stay compliant. We power AI transformation from offices in NYC, London, Berlin, and Iasi, and have raised $80M in capital from top investors including Index Ventures, Tiger Global, Balderton Capital and Y Combinator. Join over 200 leading financial institutions who rely on Taktile to enable faster, more intelligent decisions from onboarding to credit, AML, compliance, and fraud.

Taktile's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Taktile, Summer 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Taktile

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Reliable AI agents for finance decisions

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

We build an AI decision platform tailored for financial institutions. It automates and optimizes decisions like onboarding, credit approval, fraud detection, and compliance reviews while keeping humans in control to meet regulatory demands.

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

We are based in Berlin and plan to keep the company headquartered there after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Berlin is where we started and has a strong talent pool familiar with fintech and AI. It also places us in the heart of Europe's financial and regulatory landscape, which matters for our customers.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Taktile YC application?

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