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Zinc

Zinc is building the programmable commerce layer for the internet. Our API already enables tens of thousands of transactions each month, and our goal is much bigger: a world where any purchase online can be automated and integrated through a simple API. As commerce shifts to automation, AI, and agents — the purchasing layer of the internet will become essential infrastructure — which is what we're building at Zinc.

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

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #3439

Zinc is building the programmable commerce layer for the internet. Our API already enables tens of thousands of transactions each month, and our goal is much bigger: a world where any purchase online can be automated and integrated through a simple API. As commerce shifts to automation, AI, and agents — the purchasing layer of the internet will become essential infrastructure — which is what we're building at Zinc.

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High Signal interpretation

Zinc 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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APIAIautomationagentscommercepurchasing layerprogrammable commerce layerinternet
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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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AI agents · 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.

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match 74

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Cache

match 53

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shared extracted concept terms: commerce, layer; shared product terms: online, automat, commerce, layer; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

OneSchema

match 52

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shared extracted concepts: api; shared product terms: automation, api; shared product theme: workflow automation, developer infrastructure; same category: AI agents; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Snapdocs

match 51

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shared product terms: re, infrastructure, transaction, online; shared product theme: workflow automation, developer infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Evokonnect Pte Ltd (Just Ping)

match 23

AI AGENT FLEETS TAILORED FOR COMMERCE

shared extracted concepts: commerce; shared product terms: commerce; same category: AI agents