Treasury Prime YC Application

Winter 2018Active

Treasury Prime went through Y Combinator in the Winter 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: Winter 2018
Industry: FintechBanking and Exchange
Team size: 100
Status: Active
Launched: 2017

Founders

Chris DeanFounder/CEO

What Treasury Prime does

Founded in 2017, Treasury Prime is an embedded banking software platform connecting enterprise companies to a vast marketplace of banks and product partners to launch next-gen payment ecosystems on their platform. Our banking API offers the quickest, most secure way for fintechs and banks to partner, integrate and build modern financial products and increase revenue streams. We power enterprise-class embedded banking solutions for a range of complex services including money transfer, risk mitigation and integration with bank infrastructure. It's these leading-edge capabilities that helped the company to win Best Banking-as-a-Service Platform from Tearsheet in 2021 and 2022. The company was also named to CB Insights’ annual 2021 Fintech 250 list.

Treasury Prime's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Treasury Prime, Winter 2018 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Treasury Prime

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Embedded banking software platform

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

We are building an embedded banking API that connects enterprise fintechs and banks to a marketplace of banking and product partners. Our platform makes it faster and more secure for companies to integrate banking as a service and launch payment products.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, CA. The company is based there with some remote team members.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the financial and tech talent we need, plus proximity to banks and fintech partners. Remote work lets us tap broader expertise.

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 Treasury Prime YC application?

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