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Balance

Balance is the easiest way for B2B marketplaces, merchants, and service providers to process payments online. We raised our last funding round from Lightspeed, Stripe, and Max Levchin to build 'Stripe for B2B'. Balance offers the first business checkout, enabling business customers to pay How they want (check, card, bank) and When they want (net terms, payment plans, invoice payments). this is achieved while the seller receives the funds instantly and easily like card payment.

sources
4
Evidence entries preserved.
affiliations
2
Techstars, Y Combinator
competitors
6
Mapped from High Signal graph features.
status
generated
D1 lookup
last updated
2026-07-15
16:41 UTC
source evidence
Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #1682

Balance is the easiest way for B2B marketplaces, merchants, and service providers to process payments online. We raised our last funding round from Lightspeed, Stripe, and Max Levchin to build 'Stripe for B2B'. Balance offers the first business checkout, enabling business customers to pay How they want (check, card, bank) and When they want (net terms, payment plans, invoice payments). this is achieved while the seller receives the funds instantly and easily like card payment.

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Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #5887

Balance is an AI accounting firm that helps SMBs close their monthly books. Our agents do the work of an in-house finance hire, reconciling books in real time and flagging issues before they become problems.

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Techstars

techstars-portfolio #533

Balance is the safest way to custody, trade, and manage digital assets.

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Techstars

techstars-portfolio #2840

Financial forecasting software to help gig workers determine how much to work, spend, or save to reach their goals.

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High Signal interpretation

Balance is classified as Fintech from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

offline extraction
Product facets
business customersBalanceSMBsB2Bgig workerspayment planschecksellercard
mapping method
Similarity graph

Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

discovery cluster

Companies similar to Balance

Fintech · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.