We raised a round post-YC. Oh, and we have revenue too. We're up to eight people and have a long runway.
Buying a bank would take a different sort of capital though. One has to think about working with PE/hedge funds (some of whom have already bought banks) or even sovereign wealth.
That's funny, I couldn't find your post-YC round anywhere on the interwebs or CrunchBase. You've done a great job keeping that under wraps (also the revenue piece, WOW!).
I'm excited for you guys and look forward to banking through you in the future.
I agree that sovereigns would be interesting (as would PE/hedge) and I'll point out that we have many of the largest fund of funds on the planet in the bay area (within spitting distance of your office actually).
Best of luck and I look forward to seeing your team prosper in the future.