TL;DR: Startup is backed by Y Combinator. We are officially the first company to have a company back our memecoin — not a telegram group, not an anonymous wallet, a real Delaware corporation with SEC filings behind the coin.
The problem
Memecoins are everywhere. Companies that stand behind them are not.
Most tokens launch from unnamed teams, vanish after the first candle, and leave holders with a screenshot and a story. There is no registrant. No officer. No filing. When people ask “who actually backs this?”, the answer is usually nobody.
Two things get in the way:
- No company behind the coin. The ticker exists. The legal entity does not — or it does, and nobody can find it.
- No institutional signal. Being a meme and being a real startup have been treated as opposites. We think that is the trade.
What we built
Startup is the Launch page for a Y Combinator-backed company that officially backs its own memecoin. The operating company on file with the SEC is Dog Company, Inc., a Delaware corporation (CIK 0001980828).
That means:
- A named company, not a burner wallet
- Y Combinator on the cap table story
- Public SEC Form D/A filings anyone can read
- A mascot who already dresses like the board
We are the first company to do this in the open: a real company, YC-backed, standing behind the memecoin instead of hiding from it.
On the record — SEC filings
Dog Company, Inc. filed an amended Form D with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on April 8, 2025. The offering is a convertible promissory note under Rule 506(b).
- Issuer
- Dog Company, Inc.
- Form
- D/A · filed Apr 8, 2025
- CIK
- 0001980828
- Jurisdiction
- Delaware corporation
- Security
- Convertible Promissory Note
- Offering / sold
- $50,000 · $27,500 sold
- Remaining
- $22,500
- Officer
- Matthew Anderson, CEO
Read the filings:
Why us
Memecoins already move like startups: narrative, community, distribution. They just skip the part where a company exists. We did not skip it.
Y Combinator backs Startup. Startup — through Dog Company, Inc. — backs the coin. That is the whole product: the first time a company is officially behind its memecoin, with the filings published next to the launch post.
Our asks
If you trade memes, fund companies, or both, look at the filings and tell us what would make a company-backed coin actually useful. We want this to be the template, not a one-off.
Filings: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1980828/000198082825000002/0001980828-25-000002.txt