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IRBC

IRBC is a financial technology company building an AI-native financial institution for global businesses and their AI agents. We believe stablecoins are to finance what AI is to software. IRBC enables businesses across 160 countries to bank, earn yield, spend with Visa credit cards, make instant global payments, and process payments like a local. All powered by programmable money and accessible through chat interfaces and a CLI.

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Y Combinator
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last updated
2026-07-15
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Y Combinator

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IRBC is a financial technology company building an AI-native financial institution for global businesses and their AI agents. We believe stablecoins are to finance what AI is to software. IRBC enables businesses across 160 countries to bank, earn yield, spend with Visa credit cards, make instant global payments, and process payments like a local. All powered by programmable money and accessible through chat interfaces and a CLI.

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IRBC is classified as AI agents 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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stablecoinsglobal businessesprogrammable moneyVisa credit cardsAIbusinessessoftwarebusinessesAI agentsCLIAI-nativechat interfacesAI-native financial institution
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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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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.

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shared extracted concepts: ai native; shared product terms: financial, finance, accessible, businesse; shared product theme: finance and payments; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

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shared extracted concepts: businesses; shared product terms: businesse, bank, spend, card; shared product theme: finance and payments; same category: AI agents; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

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match 66

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shared extracted concepts: businesses; shared product terms: financial, businesse, bank, spend; shared product theme: finance and payments; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

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match 66

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shared extracted concepts: businesses; shared product terms: businesse, enable, credit, card; shared product theme: finance and payments; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Infinia

match 66

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shared extracted concepts: businesses; shared product terms: enable, businesse, bank, stablecoin; shared product theme: finance and payments; shared affiliation: Y Combinator