You asked about Payments
229 people built something like it. 30 are gone.
That is 15% of the ones whose fate we could settle, against 23% across the whole register. 34 were acquired.
| Launched | What it was | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 2015-01-01 | YCRazorpay India's only full-stack financial solutions company for businesses. · razorpay.com | still up |
| 2012-01-01 | YCWave Mobile money app for Africa · wave.com | still up |
| 2011-06-01 | We’re building the world’s bank payment network. · gocardless.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | YCXendit Provides payment infrastructure for Southeast Asia · xendit.co | still up |
| 2014-01-01 | YCWeave Customer communication and payments platform. · getweave.com | acquired |
| 2018-01-01 | YCAspire All-in-one Finance OS for businesses · aspireapp.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | YCFAZZ All-in-one Finance for Every Southeast Asia Business · fazzfinancial.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Data driven neobank for SMBs in LATAM · kapital.mx | still up |
| 2016-06-01 | Helping businesses make and accept payments from anywhere in Africa. · flutterwave.com | still up |
| 2009-06-01 | YCWePay Payments for platform businesses. · wepay.com | acquired |
| 2012-01-01 | YCSendwave Instant, no fee international remittances. · sendwave.com | acquired |
| 2018-06-01 | Manage your ledgers and avail Financial Services like Lending on your… · khatabook.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | YCGrin Mobility and payments platform for Latin America · ongrin.com | acquired |
| 2020-06-01 | Accounting, Payments & Credit app for 60M micro-businesses in… · bukuwarung.com | still up |
| 2022-01-18 | savvycal.com | still up |
| 2019-06-01 | YCPayMongo Modern online payments for the Philippines · paymongo.com | still up |
| 2011-01-01 | Customer loyalty and payments platform for small businesses. · fivestars.com | acquired |
| 2017-01-01 | YCNomba Banking and payments for businesses in Africa · nomba.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | YCPlate IQ Automated Accounts Payable · plateiq.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | Next-gen digital payments provider for India. · cashfree.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCOntop Simplifying hiring and payments for the global workforce · getontop.com | still up |
| 2022-04-25 | denario.io | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCVerto Cross-Border Payments and FX Simplified · vertofx.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCNALA Building Payments for the Next Billion. · nala.com | still up |
| 2023-09-19 | chequpi.com | still up |
| 2017-06-01 | YCRoutable Simplifying payouts at scale · routable.com | still up |
| 2023-01-01 | YCAlaan Modern finance platform for the Middle East · alaan.com | still up |
| 2022-01-18 | paisarocket.com | still up |
| 2011-01-01 | How businesses send money to people at scale. Fast, free, global. · tremendous.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCToku Account Receivables Platform for Latin American Enterprises · trytoku.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCJeeves International banking infrastructure for global startups. · tryjeeves.com | still up |
| 2022-01-07 | signal.org | still up |
| 2016-01-01 | YCPaystack Modern payments infrastructure for Africa · paystack.com | acquired |
| 2017-01-01 | We help healthcare orgs collect more money faster · collectly.co | still up |
| 2013-06-01 | YCArcus Payment-as-a-service that helps any business launch payment solutions · arcusfi.com | acquired |
| 2020-06-01 | YCHubla All-in-one platform for creators to sell courses and subscriptions · hub.la | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCAtrato Enabling consumers split the cost of purchases without a credit card · atratopago.com | still up |
| 2018-01-01 | YCPromise Better payment systems for governments and the communities they serve. · promise-pay.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCZ1 Digital bank for teenagers in LatAm connected to prepaid card · z1.app | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCMomence Scheduling and payments for experiences · momence.com | acquired |
| 2020-06-01 | YCAtoB Modernizing global transportation payments. · atob.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCSlash Banking, corporate cards, stablecoin payments – available globally. · slash.com | still up |
| 2018-06-01 | YCOkCredit Simple and secure bookkeeping for Indian businesses. · okcredit.in | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCBalance The first digital payment experience company, built for B2B. · getbalance.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCGIMO We help underbanked workers get paid before payday · gimo.vn | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCNomod The UAE’s leading small business payments platform · nomod.com | still up |
| 2021-06-01 | YCForage Payments powering people · joinforage.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCFintoc Account-to-Account payments in Mexico and Chile. · fintoc.com | still up |
| 2017-01-01 | YCAella Diversified credit infrastructure powering payments across Africa. · aellaapp.com | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCZiina A digital wallet for the Middle East & North Africa · ziina.com | still up |
| 2019-01-01 | YCHandle Simplifying Payments and Compliance for Construction Suppliers · handle.com | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | Digitizing and processing Microtransactions in Africa · touchandpay.me | still up |
| 2021-01-01 | YCLendflow Embedded lending infrastructure for software companies · lendflow.com | still up |
| 2020-06-01 | YCAfriex Instant, low-fee remittances · afriexapp.com | still up |
| 2023-06-01 | dltpay.com | still up |
| 2015-06-01 | YCXfers Xfers makes it possible for people to make and receive payments via… · xfers.com | acquired |
| 2011-01-01 | Order ahead for pickup · crunchbase.com | acquired |
| 2019-06-01 | Your global dollar account powered by stablecoins · cocowallet.app | still up |
| 2020-01-01 | YCUpflow Cash collection technology for B2B businesses · upflow.io | still up |
| 2022-01-01 | YCTransfez Brex for small businesses in Indonesia · itsjack.com | still up |
How this compares
Y Combinator reports its own outcomes, including acquisitions. The other two are judged by asking the domain, so they are not measured the same way and are never averaged together.
Older launches have had longer to die, so this slope is expected. A year that broke it would mean something is wrong with the checking.
The register re-probes every domain it holds. Some that answered last month stop answering. We send that list — what went quiet, and what it was — once a month. Nothing else.
How this was made. Show HN entries are every post from 2021 to 2023 with at least five points that linked to its own domain; code hosts and free hosting are excluded, because a repository outlives the effort behind it. Product Hunt entries needed 100 votes — a far higher bar, so they are the promoted top slice rather than a like-for-like sample. Both are judged by asking the domain whether it still answers: gone means it no longer resolves, refuses the connection, serves a parking page, or says plainly that it shut down. An HTTP error is not counted as gone — a server answering 404 is one somebody still pays for, and an audit of 25 gone-calls found two such sites alive with only a moved homepage. Y Combinator entries use the status YC publishes itself, which is why only those can say acquired. Squatted domains — a lapsed name now serving somebody else's site — are not detected, so these figures run slightly low.