Volopay YC Application

Summer 2020Active

Volopay went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2020 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 2020
Industry: FintechPayments
Team size: 11
Status: Active
Launched: 2020

Founders

Rajith ShajiFounder
Rajesh RaikwarFounder

What Volopay does

Volopay is a modern spend management platform that saves companies time and money by giving visibility & control to every aspect of business spending. With Volopay, finance and accounting teams can control expense requests and approvals, make bill payments (domestic/cross-border), manage company cards, and reconcile all accounting on one platform. Volopay completely eliminates the need for expense reports and reimbursements while giving everyone in the company a card to use. We worked in an offshore dev centre in the past and it took 2 months to get our reimbursements and 4 weeks to make any purchase as there was just one corporate card for the entire company and clunky bill payments solutions offered by the banks. Among our customers are Reddoorz (OYO of South East Asia), Dathena (biggest data security co in Singapore) and Beam (APAC’s leading micro-mobility player).

Volopay's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Volopay, Summer 2020 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Volopay

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Brex for South East Asia - Corporate cards & payments

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

We built a spend management platform for finance teams that combines corporate cards, bill payments, expense request approvals, and accounting reconciliation all in one place. The goal is to give companies real-time visibility and control over every aspect of their business spending, replacing clunky bank solutions and manual reimbursements.

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

We live in Singapore and the company is based there, with a remote team.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Singapore is where most of our customers are, and Southeast Asia is our primary market. We want to stay close to the ecosystem and customer base to move fast and iterate based on real feedback.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Volopay YC application?

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