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Balance (YC S20) — The first digital payment experience company, built for B2B

Balance is the easiest way for B2B marketplaces, merchants, and service providers to process payments online. We raised our last funding round from Lightspeed, Stripe, and Max Levchin to build 'Stripe for B2B'.

Balance is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2020 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: The first digital payment experience company, built for B2B. The founders listed are Bar Geron (Founder), Yoni Shuster (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, November 10, 2020).

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Balance

New accelerator entry · 2020-11-10 · the record

Summer 2020
batch
70
people
Growth
stage
United States of America
region
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What the record says

BatchSummer 2020
Announced2020-11-10
StageGrowth
StatusActive
Team size70
IndustryFintech
Sub-industryFintech -> Payments
SectorsPayments, B2B
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttps://www.getbalance.com

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Balance is the easiest way for B2B marketplaces, merchants, and service providers to process payments online. We raised our last funding round from Lightspeed, Stripe, and Max Levchin to build 'Stripe for B2B'. Balance offers the first business checkout, enabling business customers to pay How they want (check, card, bank) and When they want (net terms, payment plans, invoice payments). this is achieved while the seller receives the funds instantly and easily like card payment.

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