Fintech

Cradle

Cradle is a B2B payments network in India that lets small businesses collect online payments from other businesses for free.

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Evidence entries preserved.

affiliations

Y Combinator

competitors

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 #1700

Cradle is a B2B payments network in India that lets small businesses collect online payments from other businesses for free.

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High Signal interpretation

Cradle 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

small businessesbusinesses

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 Cradle

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.

Swipe

match 65

Swipe is a simple billing and payments app for small businesses in India. We make it easy for local businesses to invoice their customers over WhatsApp. With Swipe, businesses can send a WhatsApp message with a link that allows their customers to pay instantly with a variety of payment methods.

shared extracted concepts: small businesses, businesses; shared product terms: payment, india, small, businesse; shared product theme: finance and payments; same category: Fintech; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Nomod

match 45

Nomod is the UAE’s leading payments platform for small businesses — powering 55,000+ merchants, and processing $500M+ in annualised TPV

shared extracted concepts: small businesses; shared product terms: payment, small, businesse; shared product theme: finance and payments; same category: Fintech; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

PAYZE

match 43

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

shared extracted concept terms: businesse; shared product terms: payment, businesse, online; shared product theme: finance and payments; same category: Fintech; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

AlgoPay

match 42

AlgoPay is a payment solution for online businesses in cash economies, starting in the Middle East where there's over $1.3T handled in cash. Think: Stripe, for

shared extracted concept terms: businesse; shared product terms: payment, online, businesse; shared product theme: finance and payments; same category: Fintech

Creem

match 34

The Finance, Payments and Growth OS for small and efficient teams

shared extracted concept terms: small; shared product terms: payment, small; shared product theme: finance and payments; same category: Fintech

Bippit

match 31

Helping businesses go beyond the paycheck, by providing free financial coaching for every employee.

shared extracted concepts: businesses; shared product terms: businesse, free; same category: Fintech