Truss YC Application

Summer 2021Active

Truss went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2021 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 2021
Industry: FintechBanking and Exchange
Team size: 12
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

matthew smithFounder

What Truss does

Truss is an all-in-one banking and payment automation platform for construction businesses. With Truss, construction companies can manage bill payments, receivables, and corporate cards in one place. They can save time on manual data entry by integrating Truss with their existing tools and automating the full billing cycle, from invoicing and reconciliation.

Truss's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Truss, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Truss

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Banking for construction

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

We built an all-in-one banking and payments platform specifically for construction companies. It lets them manage bill payments, receivables, and corporate cards in one place. The product automates the full billing cycle and integrates with the tools they already use to cut down on manual data entry and reconciliation.

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

We live in San Francisco, and the company is based here now and will stay here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the fintech and startup ecosystem we need to grow Truss, plus access to talent and investors focused on fintech and payments, which matches our product's focus on banking for construction firms.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Truss YC application?

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