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YC Payments Companies

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Company	Batch	Description	Status	Location	Team	Founders	Reveal
SlidePay	W12	Banking and Payment Platform APIs. Exited October 2014.	Acquired	Mountain View, CA, USA	2	Charlie Pinto, Christopher Morton, Joel Christner	Reveal
Wave	W12	Mobile money app for Africa	Active	Dakar, Senegal	1600	Drew Durbin	Reveal
Tipjoy	W08	social micropayments	Inactive	—	2	Ivan Kirigin, Abigail Kirigin	Reveal
Shor	S25	The fastest, most affordable payroll for global teams	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	4	Daivik Goel, Avi Konduru	Reveal
Moreta	S24	Payments made easy for international travelers.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	4	Walid Mahd, Sam Yu	Reveal
Capi Money	S23	Helping businesses in emerging markets make pay their international…	Active	London, UK	40	Mitch Riley, Scott Liddle	Reveal
Flex	S23	Stripe for HSA/FSA payments	Active	—	8	Sam O'Keefe, Miguel Toledo	Reveal
Slicker	S23	Recover payment failures and maximize subscription Revenue	Active	London, UK	2	Dani Penev, Ivan Valkov	Reveal
BlueHill Payments	S22	Expanding Payment Flexibility and Lowering Rates for Merchants	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	2	Himanshu Minocha, Rohan Minocha	Reveal
Bridgecard	S22	Card issuer for Africa	Inactive	Lagos, Nigeria	5	Tunde Adewole, Festus Owumi	Reveal
Drip	S22	Shop and pay in installments anywhere	Inactive	São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil	15	Patrick McDougall, Paulo Albuquerque, Bianca Orsini	Reveal
ECSA	S22	AI Agent runs the entire international trade operation	Active	Manaus, State of Amazonas, Brazil	—	Joao Victor Aguiar, Vitor Gomes Miranda, Rodrigo Marino	Reveal
Rio	S22	LATAM’s largest stablecoin FX and liquidity provider	Active	Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico	10	Eudelio Garza, Javier Roberts, Ricardo Villarreal Chapa	Reveal
Tank Payments	S22	Modern financial infrastructure for the trucking industry.	Active	Austin, TX, USA	10	Dane Cook, Jad Rahbany, Matthew Rybak	Reveal
Tranch	S22	Tranch is the invoice to payments platform for enterprises.	Acquired	London, UK	11	Philip Kelvin, Beau Allison	Reveal
Akudo	S21	India's first learning-focused neobank for teenagers	Inactive	Bengaluru, Karnataka, India	20	Sajal Khanna, Lavika Aggarwal, Jagveer Gandhi	Reveal
Arrow	S21	Modern Checkout Platform for D2C brands in Southeast Asia	Active	Singapore	18	Liat Beng Neo, Sudhan Raj, Sebastian Roervig	Reveal
Dots 💸	S21	Developer friendly drop in payouts infrastructure	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	10	Sahil Hasan, Kartikye Mittal	Reveal
HitPay	S21	Payments infrastructure for businesses scaling in APAC	Active	Singapore	33	Aditya Haripurkar, Nitin Muthyala	Reveal
Hyper	S21	Sell memberships to your Discord server	Acquired	Palo Alto, CA, USA	6	Ben Botvinick	Reveal
inai	S21	Segment for global payments	Acquired	Delaware City, DE, USA	14	Anta Pattabiraman	Reveal
JABU	S21	B2B payments, transforming Africa's cash economy	Active	—	40	David Akinin	Reveal
Malga	S21	Malga is an API to accept payments with multiple payment providers	Active	Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	46	Alex Vilhena, Thiago Garuti	Reveal
Nomod	S21	The UAE’s leading small business payments platform	Active	Dubai - United Arab Emirates	65	Omar Kassim	Reveal
Palla	S21	P2P Cross border payments	Active	—	22	Enrique Perezalonso, Andrew Mason	Reveal
PAYZE	S21	Stripe for former Soviet Union countries	Active	Tbilisi, Georgia	4	Gega Tsurtsumia	Reveal
Pideaky	S21	We help offline LatAm SMBs manage and accelerate their cash-flow	Active	Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico	3	Carlos Tejeda, Oscar Rydberg, Rafael Tejeda Elizondo	Reveal
Slope	S21	The B2B Payments Platform	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	16	Lawrence Lin Murata, Alice Deng	Reveal
Afriex	S20	Instant, low-fee remittances	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	55	Tope Alabi, John Obirije	Reveal
Balance	S20	The first digital payment experience company, built for B2B.	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	70	Bar Geron, Yoni Shuster	Reveal
BukuWarung	S20	Accounting, Payments & Credit app for 60M micro-businesses in…	Active	Jakarta, Indonesia	250	Abhinay Peddisetty	Reveal
Charityvest	S20	A premier charitable giving account, for everyone.	Acquired	Atlanta, GA, USA	9	Stephen Kump, Ashby Foltz	Reveal
Dripos	S20	The only piece of software a coffee shop needs to operate.	Active	New York, NY, USA	35	Jack Pawlik	Reveal
Memberstack	S20	Build a custom SaaS or membership site with Webflow or Wordpress	Active	Williamsburg, VA, USA	8	Duncan Hamra, Tyler Bell	Reveal
Safepay	S20	Digital payments for businesses in Pakistan	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	4	Ziyad Parekh	Reveal
Volopay	S20	Brex for South East Asia - Corporate cards & automated payments.	Active	Singapore	11	Rajith Shaji, Rajesh Raikwar	Reveal
FamPay	S19	India’s first neobank for teenagers	Active	Bengaluru, Karnataka, India	24	Sambhav Jain, Kush Taneja	Reveal
Flux	S19	Flux is building the payment network for alternative payments in…	Active	Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico	9	Maximiliano Echeverria, Fernando de la Torre	Reveal
Method Financial	S19	Financial connectivity API for consumer liabilities	Active	New York, NY, USA	50	Jose Bethancourt, Jesus Marco del Carmen	Reveal
PayMongo	S19	Modern online payments for the Philippines	Active	Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines	220	Luis Sia	Reveal
Khatabook	S18	Manage your ledgers and avail Financial Services like Lending on your…	Active	Bengaluru, Karnataka, India	350	Ravish Naresh	Reveal
Kinside	S18	Powering the $648b Care Economy	Acquired	San Francisco, CA, USA	18	Abe Han, Shadiah Sigala	Reveal
OkCredit	S18	Simple and secure bookkeeping for Indian businesses.	Active	Bengaluru, Karnataka, India	70	Gaurav Kumar, Harsh Pokharna, Aditya Prasad	Reveal
Satchel	S18	—	Inactive	San Francisco, CA, USA	8	Andrew Chen	Reveal
Cashfree Payments	S17	Next-gen digital payments provider for India.	Active	Bengaluru, Karnataka, India	200	Reeju Datta, Akash Sinha	Reveal
tpaga	S17	First financial Superapp of Latin America	Active	Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia	25	Andres Gutierrez	Reveal
Flutterwave	S16	Helping businesses make and accept payments from anywhere in Africa.	Active	Lagos, Nigeria	500	Adeleke Adekoya, Olugbenga GB Agboola	Reveal
Xendit	S15	Provides payment infrastructure for Southeast Asia	Active	Jakarta, Indonesia	700	Moses Lo, Bo Chen, Juan Gonzalez	Reveal
Xfers	S15	Xfers makes it possible for people to make and receive payments via…	Acquired	Singapore	51	Tianwei Liu, Victor Liew Jia Hao	Reveal
Zavo	F25	AI Point of Sale for Restaurants	Active	San Francisco, CA, USA	8	Can Zehebi, Ilkan Gezer	Reveal

Batch Distribution

WW262 WW252 WW244 WW236 WW2214 WW2110

Status Breakdown

Active81 Acquired10 Inactive9

Top Locations

San Francisco18 Bengaluru7 Lagos6 Singapore6 New York5 Mexico City5

About YC Payments Companies

Y Combinator has funded 100 payments companies since its founding in 2005. These startups span from early-stage pre-launch to publicly traded companies, making YC one of the most prolific backers of payments innovation globally.

81 of these companies are currently active. 10 have been acquired. VCBacked tracks verified founder contact information, team sizes, and company status for every YC payments startup.

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