Karat Financial (YC W20) — Business banking that helps you grow
We're building the one-stop shop for creator finances. Your favorite digital creators—the ones you follow every day on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok or Twitch—aren’t just extraordinarily talented personalities and community builders.
Karat Financial is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2020 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Business banking that helps you grow. The founders listed are Eric Wei (Founder), Will Kim (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, March 15, 2020).
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We're building the one-stop shop for creator finances.
Your favorite digital creators—the ones you follow every day on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok or Twitch—aren’t just extraordinarily talented personalities and community builders. They’re also businesses. That means they have business needs—managing revenues, expenses, savings, credit, banking.
We’re building products that help creators spend less time worrying about finances so they can focus on creating.
Eric Wei
Founder
Will Kim
Founder
Founders, titles and bios as the company published them. Photographs are our own copies of the ones on that record, so they do not break when the original link expires.
One of 75 companies held here in Fintech › Credit and Lending.
No investor is drawn from a Form D — the form states how many invested and never who. The one investor on this graph is named because a batch has exactly one.
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