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Level

Level provides fast and simple financing to lending startups that gets them off the ground and grows with them as they scale. We do so by buying loans in small quantities at first and rewarding our customers with more access to capital based on performance. Co-founder & CEO, Vladimir Korshin, previously worked in the traditional venture debt system at Silicon Valley Bank, where he noticed that strong startups were frequently denied from non-dilutive financing because they were too small. Just 4

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Techstars, Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #2152

Level provides fast and simple financing to lending startups that gets them off the ground and grows with them as they scale. We do so by buying loans in small quantities at first and rewarding our customers with more access to capital based on performance. Co-founder & CEO, Vladimir Korshin, previously worked in the traditional venture debt system at Silicon Valley Bank, where he noticed that strong startups were frequently denied from non-dilutive financing because they were too small. Just 4

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Techstars

techstars-portfolio #4580

Level empowers freelancers, gig-workers and independent contractors to save towards goals and access a personal line of credit.

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Level 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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freelancersstrong startupsindependent contractorsVladimir Korshin
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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 Level

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.

Stilt

match 65

Stilt/Onbo enables you to launch credit products without a bank sponsor. We have built APIs to abstract complexity around licenses, regulatory compliance, underwriting, loan management system, credit reporting, and debt capital. We are backed by fintech investors including Y Combinator, Link Ventures, Hillsven Capital, Petrushka investments (early backer of Lending Club, Zillow, Check, Pets.com), and CEOs of billion-dollar fintech companies.

shared product terms: lend, loan, capital, venture; shared product theme: finance and payments; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Spenny

match 65

Spenny is the Acorns for India. Every time a user make any digital transaction, we round off the amount to the nearest 10 INR and invest it for them into a diversified portfolio, automatically. 400M millennials in India don't invest because they don't have enough time, knowledge or access to large capital. With Spenny, they just connect the card and invest every time they spend. We're growing 67% WoW since launch, with 3,000+ users and $15,000 in AUM. Indians put $500Bn into their bank accounts

shared product terms: off, grow, acces, capital; shared product theme: finance and payments; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

erad

match 54

erad provides startups in the Middle East with non-dilutive growth capital. Connect your sales, marketing and banking data and receive an offer within 48 hours. Get access to key insights and analysis about your business.

shared product terms: non, dilutive, capital, bank; shared product theme: finance and payments, sales and marketing; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Verde

match 51

Verde is a lending platform that offers fast loans to small-and-medium sized farmers in Brazil. Our vertical software allows independent ag loan advisors to originate loans digitally and manage their operations more effectively.

shared extracted concept terms: independent; shared product terms: fast, lend, loan, small; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Blackcopper

match 50

Blackcopper is a neo bank that empowers nano businesses, solopreneurs and freelancers with easy and fast access to financial services through proprietary credit assessment tools.

shared extracted concepts: freelancers; shared product terms: bank, freelancer, fast, acces; shared product theme: finance and payments; shared affiliation: Techstars

Metaplane

match 49

Metaplane ensures everyone trusts the data that powers your business. Data teams at Bose, Ramp, and Klaviyo use our data observability platform to prevent and detect data issues — before the CEO pings them about weird revenue numbers. We do this with ML-based anomaly detection, end-to-end column-level lineage, and tools to help prevent incidents before they occur. You can monitor your entire data stack within 30 minutes. The company is backed by Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, and the founders of

shared product terms: level, do, founder, ceo; shared product theme: sales and marketing; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator