Zinc Platform YC Application

Winter 2017Inactive

Zinc Platform went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2017 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 2017
Industry: FintechInsurance
Team size: 11
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2016

Founders

Sam LiFounder

What Zinc Platform does

Zinc Platform, Inc. is focused on providing software that digitizes the last frontier of the mortgage origination process - getting homeowners insurance. Zinc builds technology that integrates with the core systems of today’s modern mortgage lenders to power digital portals for borrowers to procure the homeowners (property) insurance that is required to close a mortgage. Zinc’s technology takes a broken, week-long process and turns it into a delightful five-minute experience. For borrowers, Zinc powers access to all of the nation’s leading insurance carriers. For mortgage lenders, Zinc ensures compliance with underwriting requirements while automating more of the mortgage closing process. Zinc is proudly built in New York City by passionate technologists and business strategists focused on making the process of buying a home a more simple, delightful experience

Zinc Platform's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Zinc Platform, Winter 2017 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Zinc Platform

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Insurance Distribution Infrastructure

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

We build software that digitizes procuring homeowners insurance, which is required to close mortgages. Our product integrates with mortgage lenders' core systems and powers digital portals where borrowers can get insurance quotes from all leading carriers. It transforms a week-long, manual process into something close to immediate and straightforward for both borrowers and lenders.

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

We live in New York, NY and would be based in New York after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We built Zinc in New York because that's where we understand the mortgage and insurance markets best, and we're surrounded by our early customers and partners here.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Zinc Platform YC application?

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