Top Road YC Application

Winter 2022Active

Top Road went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 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 2022
Industry: FintechPayments
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2022

Founders

Jeevika MakaniCo-Founder
Celilsemi Sam ErkinerFounder

What Top Road does

Top Road provides no-code analytics & payment tools so creators can monetise their AI apps ("GPTs") in the OpenAI ecosystem.

Top Road's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Top Road, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Top Road

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Payments & analytics for OpenAI GPT apps

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

We build no-code payment and analytics tools specifically for creators building AI apps in the OpenAI GPT Store. Our product lets creators monetize their GPTs and understand usage data without needing technical skills.

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

We currently live in Sydney, NSW, Australia and the company would remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We are based in Sydney where both founders live and work. Staying here lets us focus on building the product and market without relocating distractions.

21 more answers in the full application

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference are in the full version. Create a free account to open it in YC Insights, next to every other YC batch.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Top Road YC application?

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