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Float

Float is Pipe for supply chain finance. We help fast-growing consumer brands unlock capital from their inventory. We pay their supplier invoices up front and enable them to pay for their inventory after they’ve sold it.

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Y Combinator
competitors
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last updated
2026-07-15
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Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #1925

Float is Pipe for supply chain finance. We help fast-growing consumer brands unlock capital from their inventory. We pay their supplier invoices up front and enable them to pay for their inventory after they’ve sold it.

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High Signal interpretation

Float is classified as Developer tools 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.

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supply chain financefast-growing consumer brandsFloat is Pipe
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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.

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Companies similar to Float

Developer tools · 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.

Tailor

match 74

Tailor is the headless ERP that gives fast-growing retail brands a composable, API-first platform to run operations with speed, flexibility, and control. 🧱 Legacy ERP is too rigid: Systems like NetSuite and SAP take months (or years) to implement and break with every change. Tailor is modular, headless, and easy to adapt. 🧩 Point solutions don’t scale: Tools like inventory or order management software solve one problem, but can’t talk to each other or keep up with growth. 📊 Spreadsheets are e

shared extracted concept terms: fast, grow, brand; shared product terms: fast, grow, brand, inventory; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Bucephalus

match 70

Bucephalus is a supply chain operations platform that empowers the millions of fast-growing e-commerce brands to move products faster, cheaper, and more sustainably using AI.

shared extracted concept terms: fast, grow, brand; shared product terms: supply, chain, fast, grow

Suplias

match 66

Suplias helps FMCG manufacturers in Africa receive payments and finance inventory purchases of their distributors using a mobile app called Obtainly. We launched in Nigeria, where we have been growing revenue by 32% month over month for the last 11 months Our founding team has a combined 25+ years of experience in supply chain and ecommerce having worked for Procter & Gamble, Pepsi Co, Gap and Jumia, the #1 ecommerce company in Africa.

shared extracted concept terms: supply, chain; shared product terms: supply, chain, finance, grow; shared product theme: finance and payments; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

OneText

match 66

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 Jonat

shared extracted concept terms: consumer, brand; shared product terms: fast, grow, consumer, brand; shared product theme: finance and payments; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Hydrologiq

match 44

Ending diesel by unlocking the value in the hydrogen supply chain.

shared extracted concept terms: supply, chain; shared product terms: unlock, supply, chain

Pesky Fish

match 42

Pesky fish enable fishermen across the country to sell their catch directly to consumers in the fastest, freshest and most traceable supply chain

shared extracted concept terms: consumer; shared product terms: enable, consumer, supply, chain