Fintech

Lume

Lume was a banking app for nurses with earned wage access, student loan refinancing, and travel nurse jobs. Acquired by Vivian Health (an NYSE: IAC company) in 2022.

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Y Combinator

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2026-07-15

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Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #1795

Lume was a banking app for nurses with earned wage access, student loan refinancing, and travel nurse jobs. Acquired by Vivian Health (an NYSE: IAC company) in 2022.

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Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #5390

Lume speeds up customer implementation with AI. Lume helps teams analyze, map, and ingest customer data up to 87% faster, accelerating time-to-revenue.

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High Signal interpretation

Lume 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.

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Product facets

LumenursesAI

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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.

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Companies similar to Lume

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.

Clockout

match 48

Clockout is an embedded earned wage access platform that enables employees to access real-time earnings from their mobile banking app.

shared product terms: earn, wage, acces, bank; shared product theme: finance and payments; same category: Fintech

MindFi

match 35

MindFi is an app that reduces burnout and improves mental health for employees. We sell to companies in Asia such as Deutsche Bank, KPMG, PatSnap, Visa. The team is headquartered in Singapore and consists of Bjorn, (ex-Zendesk product manager), psychologist Anita Sadasivan (UMich alum, ex-Raffles Hospital), Leon 2X startup founder with 2 exits and Gangeshwar, an award-winning AI engineer.

shared product terms: bank, app, health; shared product theme: finance and payments, health and clinical care; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Seek Health AI

match 33

Seek Health helps emergency departments increase patient throughput efficiency by streamlining nurses' workflow using AI.

shared extracted concepts: nurses; shared product terms: nurse, health; shared product theme: health and clinical care

OpenBiome

match 25

We are a nonprofit stool bank, expanding safe access to fecal transplants and catalyzing research on the human microbiome.

shared product terms: bank, acces; shared product theme: finance and payments; same category: Fintech; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Upfront Online

match 24

Upfront is a FinTech startup that provides financial advisory services for refinancing car loans.

shared product terms: refinanc, loan; shared product theme: finance and payments; same category: Fintech

Defynance

match 24

Debt- and interest-free student loan refinancing and investment platform powered by AI-powered career support.

shared product terms: student, loan, refinanc