Y Combinator Credit and Lending Startups

74 Y Combinator-backed Credit and Lending companies across 26 batches — with batch, status, and location for every startup.

Total
74
Active
53
Acquired
13
Public
0
Shut down
8

Y Combinator has backed 74 Credit and Lending companies across 26 batches. Of these, 53 are still active, 13 have been acquired, 0 have gone public, and 8 have shut down. Below is every YC-backed Credit and Lending startup grouped by batch, with links to each company profile.

YC Winter 2026 — 2 Credit and Lending startups

  • Proximitty — AI operating system for commercial loans
  • Copperlane — Agentic Mortgage Origination

YC Spring 2026 — 1 Credit and Lending startups

  • Zolvo — AI Back-Office Automation for Commercial Lenders

YC Spring 2025 — 1 Credit and Lending startups

  • Chestnut — The first AI mortgage lender

YC Summer 2025 — 1 Credit and Lending startups

  • Veritus — AI agents for the consumer lending industry

YC Summer 2024 — 1 Credit and Lending startups

  • Finosu — AI Native Consumer Loan Servicer

YC Winter 2024 — 1 Credit and Lending startups

  • Yenmo — Secured consumer lending in India

YC Summer 2023 — 1 Credit and Lending startups

  • Cardinal Gray — Automating lenders' interactions with the DMV

YC Winter 2023 — 3 Credit and Lending startups

  • Trigo — Rent verification API for landlords and lenders
  • Paperplane — Credit risk management platform for builders' merchants
  • ClickPe — Finance on a Click

YC Winter 2022 — 11 Credit and Lending startups

  • Wagetap — Advance next payday, and BNPL for bills
  • Creizer — Clear.co for LATAM. Revenue based financing for online sellers.
  • Perl Street — Financing the next-generation of infrastructure projects
  • PayCrunch — Credit Card for college students based on UPI.
  • BharatX — Enable Buy-Now-Pay-Later in a White-Labelled Manner
  • Wibond — Affirm for LATAM
  • Rank (formerly Moni) — Group Financing for small businesses across Africa.
  • Numida — Working capital for African micro businesses
  • amiloz — Micro-lender in Mexico
  • GIMO — We help underbanked workers get paid before payday
  • Lenk — The next-gen lending platform for the banking system in LATAM.

YC Summer 2022 — 1 Credit and Lending startups

  • Kashin — Credit for the emerging economy in Latam

YC Winter 2021 — 11 Credit and Lending startups

  • Finley — Streamline your debt capital raise and management
  • Bueno Finance — Building Chime for India
  • Sivo — Debt as a service for companies to lend money to their users at scale.
  • Krab — Instant loans for trucking companies in India
  • GoBuild (fka Brick) — The payments solution for small scale construction.
  • Kanda — Affirm for general contractors
  • R2 — Embedded lending infrastructure
  • Pesto
  • Dayra — Data-driven embedded Financial Services for Gig Workers
  • Nano Technologies — Payroll app to pay workers daily for retailers & manufacturers in SEA
  • Kredi — Rocket Mortgage for LatAm.

YC Summer 2021 — 7 Credit and Lending startups

  • Level — Fast and simple fintech financing
  • Karbon Card — Corporate Card solution for Indian businesses
  • Baubap — Smart micro financing for everyone
  • Hypercore — Loan management software for private lenders
  • Verde — Digital lending platform for Brazilian farmers
  • Payhippo — Loans to Nigeria's SMEs in under 3 hours
  • Abhi — Abhi is Pakistan's 1st financial wellness platform focusing on…

YC Winter 2020 — 8 Credit and Lending startups

  • Grain — Grain transforms the debit card you already have into a credit card…
  • Nexu — Financing platform for LatAm car dealerships.
  • Karat Financial — Better financial services for creators
  • Breezeful — An online mortgage broker. Get the best mortgage, fast.
  • Haven — Homeownership reimagined for the 21st century.
  • Jenfi — Jenfi provides revenue-based financing for digital businesses in Asia
  • Facio — Salary advance to employees in Brazil.
  • Kosh — Creating Microfinance 2.0.

YC Summer 2020 — 1 Credit and Lending startups

  • Lendtable — We give employees cash advances for their 401k match and ESPP

YC Winter 2019 — 4 Credit and Lending startups

  • CredPal — CredPal is a buy now pay later company in Africa that allows…
  • Seawise Capital — Trade finance company for Indian exporters
  • Accept.inc (formerly BoardRE) — BoardRE is a new type of mortgage company that upgrades any offer…
  • Kovi — Making car ownership more inclusive, flexible and simple.

YC Summer 2019 — 5 Credit and Lending startups

  • Apurata — Point of sale financing for Latin America's middle class.
  • Zippi — Payment Platform for LatAm Micro and Small Businesses
  • Fynn — SoFi for trade students
  • Tranqui Finanzas — Debt Management for Latin America.
  • Blair — Financing education through Income Share Agreements

YC Winter 2018 — 1 Credit and Lending startups

  • ErudiFi — Digital financial services for students in Southeast Asia

YC Summer 2018 — 1 Credit and Lending startups

  • Prodigal — Lending Intelligence Software

YC Winter 2017 — 2 Credit and Lending startups

  • Aella — Diversified credit infrastructure powering payments across Africa.
  • OneFin — Shopify for Financial Services

YC Summer 2017 — 2 Credit and Lending startups

  • bxblue — bxblue is a marketplace for people with guaranteed income in Brazil.…
  • Dharma Labs — The easiest way to buy 74k+ crypto tokens with USD

YC Winter 2016 — 2 Credit and Lending startups

  • Landed — White-labeled shared appreciation down payment programs for employers
  • Stilt — Financial products for immigrants (acquired by JG Wentworth)

YC Summer 2016 — 3 Credit and Lending startups

  • Airfordable — Buy flights for only a fraction upfront and pay off the rest in…
  • Nova Credit — Bridging a world of consumer-permissioned credit data
  • Legalist — Legal investment firm

YC Summer 2015 — 1 Credit and Lending startups

  • Saida — A bank account that lets you easily separate, spend and track money

YC Winter 2014 — 1 Credit and Lending startups

  • Zidisha — Direct P2P lending across the international wealth divide.

YC Summer 2014 — 1 Credit and Lending startups

YC Winter 2012 — 1 Credit and Lending startups

  • LendUp — LendUp is a socially responsible company on a mission to redefine…

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