Grade
New accelerator entry · 2026-01-20 · the record
In their words
Grade is the API for performance-based payroll. Think of us like Deel or Gusto, but our payouts are for work completed, not hours. Companies use Grade to pay AI agents and contractors based on results: tasks completed, targets hit, work delivered. We handle compliance, tax reporting, and global payouts.
What the record says
- One of 23 companies held here in Fintech.
No investor is drawn from a Form D — the form states how many invested and never who. The one investor on this graph is named because a batch has exactly one.
The full profile
Source Check, INVEST, RECRUIT and Press Requests on Grade
- Source Check — verify what Grade states, against the registers that hold it.
- INVEST — size up this company on the figures its record states.
- RECRUIT — see who is already on the team.
- Press Requests — connect with Grade for a story.
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Is this you?
If you're behind Grade: acceptance into a YC batch is one of the few weeks a young company gets looked up by people who matter — investors, other founders, press. FoxPlug turns the commits, deploys, and releases you're already making into that story automatically, so anyone who looks finds something current. FoxChat puts a guide on your own site so the people YC's own page just sent you don't read one line and leave.
Sourced from the company's Y Combinator directory entry.