Tinker YC Application

Summer 2014Inactive

Tinker went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2014 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: Summer 2014
Industry: FintechAsset Management
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2014

Founders

Gareth MacLeodFounder/CEO
Trevor CreechFounder/CTO
Ross RobinsonFounder/COO, Software Engineer

What Tinker does

Tinker is a cryptocurrency electronic trading & market making firm, founded in 2014. At our peak we've processed $10m+ in daily volumes and represented 10-20% of all BTCUSD trading on regulated exchanges.

Tinker's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Tinker, Summer 2014 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Tinker

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Digital Currency Market Making

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

We built an electronic trading and market making platform focused on cryptocurrency. Our system automatically places buy and sell orders across regulated exchanges to provide liquidity and capture spreads in BTCUSD markets.

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

We live in Waterloo, ON, Canada and would base the company here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Waterloo is where we're all located and where the company was founded. We have the engineering talent and operational familiarity here, so it makes sense to stay.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Tinker YC application?

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