Заявка Balanced в YC

Winter 2011Inactive

Balanced прошел Y Combinator в потоке Winter 2011 как компания из сферы Fintech. Ниже: чем занимается компания, кто ее основал, и ее заявка в YC, реконструированная вопрос за вопросом в реальной форме YC.

Поток YC: Winter 2011
Сфера: FintechConsumer Finance
Размер команды: 11
Статус: Inactive
Запущено: 2012

Фаундеры

Glenn Dixon

Чем занимается Balanced

Payments for Marketplaces. We're obsessed with all forms of infrastructure, including communications, transportation, energy, waste management, and payments. Robust infrastructure creates a happier, more productive, and more prosperous society. You know exactly what I mean if you've traveled somewhere where you struggled to find a reliable Internet connect or even usable roads. You also know what I mean when you sit in traffic or struggle with public transportation (or lack thereof) in the US. Balanced was created to increase the global economy (increase GDP) by enabling new commerce. Our mechanism or facility to do that is payments. Everything else we do depends on how it fits into the vision for Balanced.

Заявка Balanced в YC, реконструирована

Заявка Y Combinator

Balanced, батч Winter 2011. Реальные вопросы из анкеты, ответы из публичных данных.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Balanced

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Payments for Marketplaces

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

We are building a payments infrastructure specifically for marketplaces. Our product handles payment processing, escrow, and fund management to enable marketplace businesses to securely and efficiently move money between buyers and sellers. We focus on making payments simple and reliable for marketplace operators so they can grow without building complicated payment flows themselves.

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

We live and work in San Francisco, CA and the company will be based here after YC as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where the team is located and where we are close to the finance and tech ecosystem critical to building our fintech product. Being here keeps us close to potential partners, banks, and the marketplace startups that need our product.

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Это реальная заявка Balanced в YC?

Нет. Y Combinator держит поданные заявки в приватности. Это реконструкция: реальные вопросы формы YC, ответы на которые основаны на публичных данных Balanced (заметки о запуске, бэкграунд фаундеров, описание продукта). Это показывает, как компания вроде Balanced представила бы себя YC, а не текст, который они подали.