Titan YC Application

Summer 2018Active

Titan went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2018 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 2018
Industry: FintechAsset Management
Team size: 40
Status: Active
Launched: 2018

Founders

Clayton GardnerFounder
Joe PercocoFounder

What Titan does

Titan is an award-winning wealth manager with a mission to increase our generation’s compound growth rate. We plan to do this by putting a human wealth advisor in every pocket. Historically, wealth managers have been accessible to only the ultra-wealthy. With Titan, they’re available to everyone. We harness frontier technologies like artificial intelligence to build a platform that gives advisors superpowers, enabling them to serve clients they historically never could. Backed by a16z, General Catalyst, Sam Altman, and many others, we manage over $1 billion in assets for clients across the country.

Titan's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Titan, Summer 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Titan

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Wealth management accessible to everyone

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

We build a wealth management platform that combines human advisors with software to manage client assets. Our product puts real financial advisors in the hands of everyday investors through a mobile app, increasing their investment returns by focusing on long-term compound growth.

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

We live in New York City, and the company is based here as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

New York City lets us be close to financial markets, top talent in finance and tech, and key industry partners.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Titan YC application?

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