Winter YC Application

Winter 2022Acquired

Winter went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 batch as a B2B 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: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 3
Status: Acquired
Launched: 2022

Founders

Michael LuoFounder
Laila ChimaFounder

What Winter does

Stripe for NFT purchases. Easily buy/sell NFTs with a credit card.

Winter's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

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

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Winter

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Credit card checkout for NFTs

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

We built a platform that lets users buy and sell NFTs with a credit card instead of crypto wallets. This opens up NFT purchases to anyone with a credit card and avoids the complexity of crypto transactions. Our product is aimed at NFT marketplaces and businesses that want to accept NFT payments without making buyers manage wallets or crypto.

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

We live in San Francisco, and the company would stay based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has the right talent and ecosystem for both crypto and payments infrastructure. It's where the team lives and where NFT and tech adoption is highest, so it's natural for Winter to be headquartered here.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Winter YC application?

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