You asked about Banking and Exchange
23 people built something like it. 6 are gone.
That is 29% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 2 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-01-01 | YCGlep AI-Native Spend platform built for Real Estate businesses · glep.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCMoneco Neobank for African migrants in Europe · moneco.app | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCPana A Global Bank on Chain · holapana.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | FundOS — AI operations for fund managers · vantedgeai.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCCoupl Banking designed for Indian couples. · coupl.money | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCEmigre Banking in India for Indian expats (NRIs) · emigre.us | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCSeis Banking 100% in Spanish for the 44 million US Spanish speakers · seis.com | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCWibond Affirm for LATAM · wibond.co | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCArc Banking & Funding for Startups · joinarc.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | Group Financing for small businesses across Africa. · userank.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCPayCaddy Simplified Banking as a Service for Latam · paycaddy.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCLenk The next-gen lending platform for the banking system in LATAM. · getlenk.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCGrey Banking services for remote workers and digital nomads · grey.co | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCStreak A neo-banking platform for children in India · streakcard.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCNash All in one finance platform for borderless businesses in Africa · getnashglobal.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCAnchor Embedded finance platform for African businesses · getanchor.co | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | The NFT exchange for traders · nftscoring.com | gone |
| 2022-06-01 | Card issuer for Africa · bridgecard.cards | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | YCOrca Banking for Gen Z, on steroids. · orca.fyi | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCValari Embedded finance platform for LatAm. · valari.co | gone |
| 2022-01-01 | Cord Blood Banking Reimagined · anjahealth.com | acquired |
| 2022-01-01 | YCSei AI AI Operations Partner for Mortgage & Banking · seiright.com | still up |
| 2022-06-01 | YCAlma Gamified mobile banking app where people can win $1M every Wednesday · myalmafi.com | gone |
How this compares
The register re-probes every domain it holds. Some that answered last month stop answering. We send that list — what went quiet, and what it was — once a month. Nothing else.
How this was made. Show HN entries are every post from 2021 to 2023 with at least five points that linked to its own domain; code hosts and free hosting are excluded, because a repository outlives the effort behind it. Product Hunt entries needed 100 votes — a far higher bar, so they are the promoted top slice rather than a like-for-like sample. Both are judged by asking the domain whether it still answers: gone means it no longer resolves, refuses the connection, serves a parking page, or says plainly that it shut down. An HTTP error is not counted as gone — a server answering 404 is one somebody still pays for, and an audit of 25 gone-calls found two such sites alive with only a moved homepage. Y Combinator entries use the status YC publishes itself, which is why only those can say acquired. Squatted domains — a lapsed name now serving somebody else's site — are not detected, so these figures run slightly low.