The startup helps them get financing, grow commercial partnerships, incorporate and raise investments. With UpBanx’s first-ever fundraising exercise, the startup plans to accelerate its product development and business growth, leveraging on Y Combinator’s world-class accelerator programme and investors’ experience, said Taftazani. UpBanx, co-founded by Taftazani, along with Hendri Wijaya and Alif Jafar Fatkhurrohman, is a fintech firm that caters to creators, brands, freelancers, and agencies, among others.