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Paid

Paid is an API for invoicing. Paid helps company manage their accounts receiving with a seamless integration into any tech stack. We help you track expenses, generate & issue invoices, remind customers of outstanding payments and reconcile your accounts—all with about 30 minutes development time. API - Automate Everything Paid allows you to automate every step of your accounts receivable. In a few lines of code you can create invoices, issue them, and accept payments. Paid makes the invoicing/bi

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2
Evidence entries preserved.
affiliations
2
Techstars, Y Combinator
competitors
6
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D1 lookup
last updated
2026-07-15
16:41 UTC
source evidence
Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #962

Paid is an API for invoicing. Paid helps company manage their accounts receiving with a seamless integration into any tech stack. We help you track expenses, generate & issue invoices, remind customers of outstanding payments and reconcile your accounts—all with about 30 minutes development time. API - Automate Everything Paid allows you to automate every step of your accounts receivable. In a few lines of code you can create invoices, issue them, and accept payments. Paid makes the invoicing/bi

source

Techstars

techstars-portfolio #849

Paid's platform allows micro businesses and freelancers to get paid on time through its invoice financing at scale for low value invoices.

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High Signal interpretation

Paid 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.

offline extraction
Product facets
APIPaidmicro businessesfreelancersinvoicing
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 Paid

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.

Dots 💸

match 105

Dots is a developer-friendly API that lets businesses pay their contractors through just a few lines of code. Whether its gig workers like Uber drivers, sellers on marketplaces like Etsy, or simply your local handyman - Dots’ abstracts away the complexity of payouts completely. We manage the entire process: information collection (KYC), payments through any rail (ACH, Venmo, CashApp, Zelle, international, and many more to come), and even filing tax forms! Dots lets developers get payouts up and

shared extracted concepts: api; shared product terms: api, businesse, few, line; shared product theme: developer infrastructure, finance and payments, sales and marketing; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Peakflo

match 98

Peakflo, with its Agentic Workflows and one-click ERP integrations, helps finance teams eliminate manual work across the entire invoice-to-cash, procure-to-pay, travel and expense reimbursement, and operations. 100+ businesses—from scale-ups to enterprises, use Peakflo each to: ✅ Save 1000 man-hours/month on finance ops ✅ Get paid faster on customer invoices by 15-25 days ✅ Cut vendor bill payment time by 50% ✅ Automate three-way matching

shared extracted concept terms: businesse; shared product terms: paid, integration, expense, invoice; shared product theme: workflow automation, finance and payments, sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Lotus

match 89

Lotus is an open-core pricing and billing engine. We enable API companies to automate their custom usage-based pricing for any metric. Rather than guess on how to charge their customers, Lotus provides companies with powerful new tools from metering to invoicing to testing new pricing. Our self-hosted software is free on GitHub, and we offer a paid cloud version and enterprise tier for support.

shared extracted concepts: invoicing; shared product terms: api, automate, any, customer; shared product theme: workflow automation, developer infrastructure, sales and marketing; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Crema

match 66

Crema is a payments solution for independent professionals. With Crema, freelancers can charge and get paid on time, without the hassle of following up and begging for money you've rightfully earned. Crema allows freelancers to create gigs and invoices...

shared extracted concepts: freelancers; shared product terms: payment, freelancer, paid, time; shared product theme: finance and payments; shared affiliation: Techstars

Encuadrado

match 53

Encuadrado automates booking, payments, and invoicing for solo practitioners running appointment-based businesses in LATAM.

shared extracted concept terms: businesse; shared product terms: automate, payment, invoic, businesse; shared product theme: workflow automation, finance and payments; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Maxi

match 46

Maxi is an iMessage-based, AI-native agent for your personal finances. It connects to all your accounts (secure read-only access) and Gmail and proactively texts you to help cancel subscriptions, identify split expenses, and send Venmo requests (on your behalf). It also tracks your net worth, reminds you about bills, and keeps you in line with your budgets.

shared product terms: account, expense, track, remind; shared product theme: finance and payments; shared affiliation: Y Combinator