Zeal YC Application

Summer 2019Active

Zeal went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2019 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 2019
Industry: Fintech
Team size: 45
Status: Active
Launched: 2019

Founders

Pranab KrishnanFounder
Kirti ShenoyFounder

Zeal's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Zeal, Summer 2019 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Zeal

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Modern payroll for modern work

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

We built a payroll platform tailored to the needs of companies with modern, flexible workforces - contractors, freelancers, and full-time employees - handling compliance and payments in one system. Our product simplifies payroll for businesses dealing with increasingly complex employment arrangements that current payroll software struggles to support.

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

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

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is a hub for fintech startups and access to early customers and technical talent made it the right base for Zeal.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Zeal YC application?

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