You asked about Conversational Banking
23 people built something like it. 5 are gone.
That is 24% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 2 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-01 | YCLemFi Fair, simple and accessible financial services · lemfi.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCDjamo Challenger Bank for consumers in French speaking Africa. · djamo.com | still up |
| 2021-06-09 | airy.co | still up |
| 2021-07-19 | primerlabs.io | unverified |
| 2021-06-01 | YCSlash Banking, corporate cards, stablecoin payments – available globally. · slash.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCProspa Banking for businesses · getprospa.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCtrii One stop investment solution for retail investors in Latam · trii.co | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Plaid for Southeast Asia · finantier.co | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCTAG TAG is the First Digital Bank (Chime/Revolut/N26) for Pakistan · tagme.pk | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCNavattic Interactive product demos · navattic.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCNextPay The digital bank for small businesses in the Philippines. · nextpay.world | still up |
| 2021-06-11 | lazyweb.ai | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCStriga Compliant Crypto and Banking Infrastructure · striga.com | acquired |
| 2021-06-01 | YCTruss Banking for construction · trusspayments.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCLevro Multicurrency account & international payments for businesses · levro.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCMono Plaid for Africa, but better. · mono.co | acquired |
| 2021-01-01 | YCDayra Data-driven embedded Financial Services for Gig Workers · dayra.co | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCIvella Banking and savings products designed for couples · ivella.com | gone |
| 2021-01-01 | YCMendel Workflows to empower employees to spend while finance stay in control · mendel.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCBroad The multicurrency account and card for Brazilians · broad.app | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | Accelerating the shift to a more transparent economy · purposefinance.com | gone |
| 2021-06-01 | YCSentiyen Conversational AI assistants using your knowledge · sentiyen.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCSupadock AI workers for logistics operations · getsupadock.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCOpkit AI phone calls for the US healthcare industry · opkit.co | gone |
How this compares
Y Combinator reports its own outcomes, including acquisitions. The other two are judged by asking the domain, so they are not measured the same way and are never averaged together.
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.