Payments Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2025

Building extremely affordable financial infrastructure for Africa.

The journey of building Razorpay started in 2014, when Harshil Mathur (CEO & Co-Founder) and Shashank Kumar (MD & Co-Founder) witnessed the dismal state of the online payments industry in India then and understood that they have a larger and more important issue to solve. And That was democratizing online payments for Indian businesses, particularly the underserved market, Startups and SMEs. Over the last 9 years, Razorpay has evolved from a single-product company to a multi-product company, from an online payment gateway to India’s only full-stack financial solutions company, offering payments and banking solutions to businesses. Razorpay today is transforming age-old complexities and changing every known paradigm of money movement for disruptive businesses. Over the last couple of years, Razorpay’s growth has evolved to be an index of India’s digital economy. From a kirana shop in Kashmir collecting payments on our POS device to a textile exporter in Kanyakumari accepting dollars through our International Payments product, Razorpay has revolutionised how businesses have traditionally transacted and interacted with money. Razorpay became the first and only Indian fintech to build a full-stack international Payment Gateway ‘Curlec by Razorpay’ and evolved into a comprehensive provider of payment solutions, leveraging the synergy between cutting-edge technological capabilities and a profound understanding of the local payment ecosystem. The introduction of the new Curlec Payment Gateway aims to cater to a wide spectrum of businesses, expanding its reach to over 5,000 establishments. Be it for international expansion or solving for Indian businesses, for Razorpay, the customer has always been at the core of all disruption, from addressing evolving needs to delivering new solutions. This hyperfocus helped bring Razorpay’s several industry-first innovations into the market since 2014. Razorpay became the first to launch a completely digital on-boarding process for startups, first to launch support for UPI, first to launch support for Bharath QR, first to introduce recurring payments for businesses through Razorpay Route, automating payment receipts and later automate payouts and making the entire process seamless and optimized and many more were introduced aling the way. Other firsts include: - First to launch India’s Multi-Network Tokenisation solution, TokenHQ - Razorpay became India’s first payment gateway to support credit cards on UPI - Razorpay also became India’s largest omnichannel payment gateway for businesses post acquiring Ezetap which is India’s leading offline POS company that was founded with the aim to simplify the in-person offline payments experience. Over the years, Razorpay’s valuation has jumped from $1 billion to $7.5 billion and has added a host of marquee investors to its captable. Razorpay is also the second Indian company to be a part of Silicon Valley’s largest tech accelerator, Y Combinator. Marquee investors such as Lone Pine Capital, Alkeon Capital, TCV, GIC, Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital India, Ribbit Capital, Matrix Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Y Combinator, and MasterCard have invested a total of $741.5 Mn through Series A, B, C, D, E and F funding. The last financing round of Series F led the company’s valuation to $7.5 Billion signaling one of the fastest increases in valuation for an Indian Unicorn. Razorpay has also made acquisitions with like-minded companies over the last 9 years. In total, till date, Razorpay has made eight acquisitions, Billme in 2023 - A Digital invoice and customer Engagement, Ezetap in 2022 - India’s leading offline POS company, PoshVine in 2022 - India’s leading loyalty and reward management platform, IZealiant in 2022 - A mobile-first, API-enabled, and cloud-ready payment solution and made its first international foray in South-East Asia by announcing its acquisition of Curlec in 2022 - A recurring payments platform. TeraFin Labs in 2021 - the AI-based SaaS platform that facilitates digital financing solutions, Opfin (Now RazorpayX Payroll) in 2019 - The payroll management solution and Thirdwatch in 2019, the first acquisition - The AI-powered fraud detection platform. All these efforts are being done in collaboration with banks, regulators, and stakeholders so that India can build a better place for small and big businesses. Today, Razorpay powers online payments for 76 Of 100 startup unicorns and millions of businesses in India. The core premise of what Razorpay was founded in 2014 and what it is today hasn’t changed. It is to make money movement simpler and easier, whether it is for businesses to receive money, send money, or manage money.

Zavo is the first AI-point of sale platform for restaurants. We unify payments, point of sale, and AI agents into one seamless platform, allowing business to accept payments, manage operations and automate manual processes with Ai. From reservations, to payments to point of sale, we have built the full restaurant tech stack in-house with AI automation across all products. We started Zavo in May 2025, currently over 400 businesses of different sizes use Zavo to accept payments and manage operations

Shor is a new Employer-of-Record built from the ground up with AI agents and stablecoins. We enable remote teams to hire and pay global employees at a fraction of the cost. The process is fast, simple, and fully compliant. Today, global payroll is broken. Payments take days, cost 5–10% in fees, and force companies to navigate complex banking, tax, and labor regulations. Platforms like Deel and Rippling solved this for large enterprises but remain too expensive and cumbersome for the millions of startups and growing remote teams scaling globally. Shor fixes this by combining autonomous AI agents with stablecoin-based settlement. Our agents handle contracts, worker classification, compliance, and payroll automatically in a simple, messaging-first experience. Payments can settle in seconds rather than weeks at a fraction of the cost of legacy providers. We are making global payroll fast, affordable, and accessible for the millions of companies left out by legacy platforms.

Infinite is a stablecoin payment processor. We offer businesses turnkey APIs and SDKs to instantly move money anywhere in the world at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions.

BlindPay is a stablecoin API that enables companies to send and receive money worldwide using fiat money, stablecoins and multiple blockchains. We handle all the complex compliance and regulatory requirements, so companies can focus on their core business.

Blaze (YC S24) is global Venmo for cross border payments. It's a peer to peer payments app that uses USDC to make payments fast and cheap between any two people anywhere in the world. The founders scaled their last startup to $1M in ARR, studied mathematics and engineering at Duke, NYU, and Cornell, and have led teams at Spotify, Artsy, and Bitpanda. They're live in the US and Mexico, available for download on iOS and Android: https://blaze.money

At Moreta, we simplify payments for international travelers, letting you pay for anything using just your phone. Say goodbye to the hassle of searching for the best cash exchange rates or ATMs on your next trip. With Moreta, paying local merchants is easy, and the best part? Transparent fees. We came up with Moreta while on our own backpacking adventures. Watching locals pay with a simple scan while we fumbled with cards and cash. So, we created a solution. By syncing with local payment networks, Moreta lets you pay like a local securely and digitally, without needing a bank account in every country. We’re starting in Asia, where QR code digital wallets are taking over and are now the top choice at checkout. As these wallets start to join forces for cross-border payments, Moreta will be the first to bridge the gap for international travelers from card-centric markets to seamlessly tap into these local networks. Moreta will target 67 million travelers arriving in the region each year, who together have $127 billion in everyday expenditure.

The New Money Company protects invoices with insurance. We help businesses expand to buyers in new markets or industries by offloading the risk of buyers not paying their bill. Support number: +18889975745.

We're building a commerce solution for SaaS companies globally that have overseas customers. We especially help them with streamlining billing operations like invoicing and reconciliation, managing foreign sales tax and accepting payments. We abstract out the complexities of compliance, remittance and integration for these merchants by running all that machinery in the background.

Swift is building instant international payments to replace the archaic correspondent banking infrastructure. Our first product is an all-in-one embedded finance platform for online merchants.

Infinity is a banking and payments platform for cross-border businesses in India. We help our customers make cross-border payments that are 70% cheaper than traditional methods and earn income on idle cash by investing in government securities.

Capi helps businesses in emerging markets make international payments. Importers in emerging markets pay up to 10% to settle invoices and wait weeks for payments to arrive. We’re on a mission to give businesses in emerging markets the same price and speed as we expect in the US and Europe.

Flex is a payment platform for businesses to accept HSA/FSA, unlocking the $150B per year sitting in HSA/FSA accounts.

Slicker eliminates involuntary churn through AI-powered retries, tailored for your business. Our proprietary engine automatically monitors, detects, and recovers failed recurring payments, so you can convert past due invoices into revenue.

End-to-end suite of fraud detection and prevention solutions, including an analytics product to monitor and understand dispute + fraud metrics, an AI product which highlights transactions for merchants to follow up on, and an AI solution to recommend rules that can be implemented in payment provider platforms (Stripe, Shopify, Adyen) to proactively reduce dispute + fraud rates.

We make it easy for founders to do billing right out of demo day. Every B2B startup faces the same billing nightmare: unique customer terms, custom pricing, usage tiers, and discount structures that make manual billing a costly mess. Hiring billing specialists adds overhead and introduces human error right when you need to move fast. JustPaid makes billing effortless by extracting billing logic directly from your contracts—whether they're PDFs or stored in your CRM—and automatically generating accurate, timely invoices. Already using Stripe, DocuSign, CommonPaper, HubSpot, or Salesforce? We integrate seamlessly with your existing stack. Maintain control while automating the complexity. No more pricing disputes. Faster cash flow. Fewer headaches. - Move fast: Bill customers from day one without hiring specialists - Scale smart: Handle complex pricing models without operational overhead - Stay focused: Spend time building your product, not managing invoices - Reduce risk: Eliminate human error in billing calculations We're always asking ourselves: How can we make a company's financial operations effortless so teams can focus on scaling? - We don't settle - We are passionate - We are serial entrepreneurs We aim to make a dent in the universe.

Waza is the B2B platform for global payments and emerging market trade. We make it easy and affordable for businesses with no access to USD to fulfil their global payment obligations, treasury and liquidity needs.

Alaan is an AI-powered finance platform for businesses in the Middle East. We help businesses instantly issue corporate cards for employees, control their spending, and automate workflows. Our mission is to simplify finance for businesses in the Middle East and help them prosper. We have grown rapidly and now work with over 2000 startups, mid-market, and enterprise customers across various industries, doing tens of millions of dollars in payment volume. We've been default alive since our launch in August 2022 (9x net revenue growth in 2023, 6x in 2024), and raised one of the largest Series A rounds in the history of the Middle East backed by Peak XV (formerly Sequoia India). Check out alaan.com/careers if you want to join us!

Infinia enables fintechs, businesses, and banks to bridge stablecoins with local payment rails in emerging markets. Ianai, the CEO, was part of the founding team at dLocal, where he helped grow the company from $0 to $100M in ARR.

OneText is disrupting SMS marketing and payments. We win incremental sales for direct to consumer brands by making every purchase as effortless as paying with your hotel room number. OneText shoppers literally reply and buy with one text. In our first year, we’ve onboarded 50 fast-growing e-commerce brands and have added as much as 14% in incremental revenue to their bottom lines. In March, we generated $597,000 dollars in payments. In April, we’ll book $50,000 dollars in revenue. Founders Jonathan Fudem/CEO and Daniel Brain/CTO met at PayPal Checkout where we designed and launched some of the world’s best checkout experiences. We left PayPal to build a payments company that actually helps merchants acquire customers and win sales. The CMO of our largest customer, a $90M clothing brand, says we have revolutionized marketing for his company, and are, quote: “the best thing that’s happened to SMS marketing in forever.” We are excited to share what you can do with OneText.

Tank Payments is building modern financial infrastructure for the trucking industry. We offer payables automation software for logistics businesses that make hundreds of payments to trucking businesses every day. For trucking businesses, we provide a best-in-class banking platform, designed to meet the unique financial needs of the trucking sector.

Rio is the premier stablecoin liquidity provider for the LATAM market. We enable access to stablecoins for financial innovators to scale their products.

Chariot is building financial products for nonprofits, starting with the first ever online payment system connecting Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) with nonprofits. DAF’s have $250 billion in assets and grant out over $52 billion per year to nonprofits. It’s the fastest growing segment of philanthropy, by far. Chariot now powers seamless DAF giving for tens of thousands of nonprofits, including some of the most well-known nonprofits in the country, like Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Central Park Conservancy, Boys & Girls Club of America, Pan-Mass Challenge, and March of Dimes. DAFpay is also now a primary payment option on leading fundraising platforms like GoFundMe, Givebutter, DonorDrive, Springboard by Jackson River, Engaging Networks, and dozens more. We are already driving tens of millions in new online DAF Giving by thousands of donors, and we’re only getting started.

Our AI Agent runs the entire international trade operation: handles customs processes with government agencies and regulators, orchestrates cross-border payments, and provides credit solutions for trade finance. Built by ECSA, a Central Bank–licensed FX bank, the agent allows exporters and importers to move goods and money seamlessly across borders. Today it powers +USD 1b in annual volume across +17.000 transactions, cutting costs and eliminating regulatory friction.

BlueHill is like a marketplace for payment processors. Our product is an intelligent gateway routing platform that automatically reduces transaction fees on everyday credit card transactions by routing transactions to different gateways based on a variety of parameters. This allows merchants to get access to a wider variety of alternative payment methods while lowering their fees, improving transaction clearance rate all while still getting lower processing rates.

We're providing payment rails to help African merchants and consumers easily pay their suppliers abroad.

We provide US based USD deposit accounts that sit with a licensed banking partner. Elevate's FDIC-insured USD accounts offer ACH, wire inbound and outbound payments, and a free Mastercard debit card. Our regional payout partners enable our users to send their money back home at very low cost. We're targetting non-US residents in emerging markets who struggle to get paid in USD.

Vendy is a marketplace on WhatsApp. We provide customized WhatsApp shops for sellers, allowing buyers to browse inventory, place orders with automated invoicing, and make payments, all within WhatsApp. No app download or sign-up required.

Go live in less than an hour. Accept local payments, subscriptions, and installments in LATAM with a checkout built to match your ambition. ‍ Engineered for companies that set the standard. With our platform and API, companies can integrate over 100 local payment methods from the region, including cards, bank transfers, cash, and even wallets. In addition, they always receive the best human support with fair pricing and utmost transparency, enabling them to scale across the region 10 times faster.

Internet broke physical boundaries in commerce and made it global. It never happened in finance. Almost all financial consumer apps are country specific. Stablecoins are the internet moment for finance industry. Cypher lets an user download an app from anywhere in the world and have a bank account in 5 mins and start transacting with the crypto card. Can instantly send USDC to anywhere in the world.

Peakflo, with its Agentic Workflows and one-click ERP integrations, helps finance teams eliminate manual work across the entire invoice-to-cash, procure-to-pay, travel and expense reimbursement, and operations. 100+ businesses—from scale-ups to enterprises, use Peakflo each to: ✅ Save 1000 man-hours/month on finance ops ✅ Get paid faster on customer invoices by 15-25 days ✅ Cut vendor bill payment time by 50% ✅ Automate three-way matching

All-in-one spend management for businesses in Latam. We give customers tools for bill payments, automated local transfers and corporate cards.

Top Road provides no-code analytics & payment tools so creators can monetise their AI apps ("GPTs") in the OpenAI ecosystem.

Venue.ink is a booking app for tattoo artists and studios. Receive bookings, manage your calendar, chat with clients and get paid. We help artists spend more time on art, and less time on admin.

Eazipay is Africa’s leading payroll and payment automation platform, making it easy for businesses to pay their teams accurately, on time, and with minimal effort. Our Payroll API enables businesses, fintechs, and platforms to integrate payroll processing directly into their systems—automating salary payments, tax deductions, and compliance. Beyond payroll, Eazipay also empowers workers by providing faster access to their earnings and financial benefits. With features like early wage access and financial wellness tools, we help employees and gig workers gain more control over their income and financial stability. We now serve over 10k businesses, with many YC companies as customers.

We process cash-based microtransactions across Africa's informal sector, an example of microtransaction is payment for bus rides today we help over 300k people make this payment.

Mono provides an API-first platform that lets any company in LatAm offer financial capabilities, wallets, real-time payouts (Bre-B), Visa cards, and multi-rail bank transfer without becoming a fintech.

HQ in Namibia and Zambia, Jabu is a fintech startup providing digital wallet solutions to streamline transactions in Africa's cash-dominated economy, enhancing business efficiency and financial integration.

At Streak, we are building a new age personalized & gamified banking solution for teenagers. We are a fast-paced edu-fintech startup working towards redefining children and teenagers' relationship with money.

We are building Flux- Flux is a Mobile App for merchants, freelancers, regular users(P2P) to make and accept payments from their customers anywhere in the world using crypto or fiat. We have built a mobile app that uses the merchants’ phone number, creates a wallet enabling them to receive payments in crypto or fiat without having to go to an exchange or pay expensive fees. Merchants can accept payments in crypto or in fiat. Payments made in Crypto can easily convert into fiat due to the built in fast reconciliation and is made available for spending immediately. Currently the vast majority merchants receive payments in crypto because of two issues (1) Paypal, Venmo, CashApp or Square to not exist in Africa and (2) the local currency fluctuates more than bitcoin due to inflation. But in order for merchants to receive money in crypto and exchange it into fiat they resort to crypto exchange apps and crypto addresses to receive payments which is a very complicated and expensive process. Merchants want to be paid quickly with the lowest amount of fees possible. This is why we are building Flux

Arrow makes it easier and faster for sellers and shoppers to safely sell and buy online in Southeast Asia. It is first in Southeast Asia to provide brands a better, more profitable checkout experience for their shoppers. Arrow was created to partner with merchants to build consistent and seamless hyperlocal checkout experiences wherever their shoppers come across their brands.  Shoppers checkout securely with their preferred payment methods. They no longer have to set up new passwords, face multiple redirects or set up a new account every time they shop. Built specifically for Southeast Asia, Arrow works anywhere that shoppers prefer to shop from. Southeast Asian shoppers love the simple and hassle-free solution since almost everyone in this region shops on their mobile devices. With Arrow, merchants sell more of what they are selling; and shoppers conveniently and easily checkout wherever they shop.

HitPay is a full stack payments infrastructure platform designed for growing businesses in APAC. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Singapore, HitPay unifies e-commerce, point of sale, and B2B payments into a single platform. The company is regulated in 6 APAC jurisdictions and backed by leading global investors, including Tiger Global, Y Combinator, Global Founders Capital, and HOF Capital.

Palla enables instant P2P payments from the US to other countries, a $65BN a year market. Sending and receiving remittances today is slow, time consuming and inconvenient for all parties, as it's a mostly cash based process. With Palla, senders in the US can do it in a few taps of their phone and receivers get their money in seconds.

Innovator of online transactions, helping businesses in former soviet union countries to accept payments from around the world through a single integration.

Malga gives digital businesses access to multiple payments services through a single integration, and the ability to change between them on a transaction to transaction basis without writing code.

Nomod is the UAE’s leading payments platform for small businesses — powering 40,000+ merchants, and processing $350M+ in annualised TPV

Accept and reconcile B2B payments seamlessly.

Dots is a developer-friendly API that lets businesses pay their contractors through just a few lines of code. Whether its gig workers like Uber drivers, sellers on marketplaces like Etsy, or simply your local handyman - Dots’ abstracts away the complexity of payouts completely. We manage the entire process: information collection (KYC), payments through any rail (ACH, Venmo, CashApp, Zelle, international, and many more to come), and even filing tax forms! Dots lets developers get payouts up and running over just a few hours, rather than the many months this would normally take.