Formance vs Swipe
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Paris open-source fintech infrastructure with programmable ledger and payment orchestration at 10x revenue growth; YC $21M PayPal Ventures/Portage Series A serving Doctolib and Liberis competing with Modern Treasury for fintech ledger-as-a-service.
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Formance is a Paris, France-based open-source financial infrastructure company — backed by Y Combinator with $21 million raised in a Series A in January 2025 co-led by PayPal Ventures and Portage Ventures after 10x revenue growth, with prior investment from Hoxton Ventures and Axeleo Capital — providing fintech companies, vertical SaaS platforms, and financial institutions with programmable open-source ledger infrastructure (Formance Ledger), payment orchestration (Formance Payments), and transaction reconciliation automation, positioning as the "AWS for fintech infrastructure" with a developer-friendly platform that removes the need to build custom financial data management systems from scratch. Founded in 2021 and serving customers including Doctolib, Liberis, Booksy, and Btech, Formance is growing from 20 to 50 employees by end of 2025 and opening a New York office.
Hyderabad India YC W20 GST billing and accounting for SMEs at ₹3.81Cr revenue Mar 2024 with 65 employees;
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Swipe is a Hyderabad, India-based GST billing and accounting platform for Indian SMEs — backed by Y Combinator (W20) with $2.04 million in total funding including a $2 million seed in February 2022 led by Y Combinator with Global Founders Capital, Soma Capital, Duro Ventures, and others — providing small and medium enterprises with a SaaS application for GST-compliant invoicing, inventory management, payment collection, and financial reporting that simplifies the compliance and accounting overhead of India's Goods and Services Tax system. Founded in 2021 by Sri Teja Allaparthi and Aditya Vemuganti, Swipe generated ₹3.81 crore ($450,000) in annual revenue as of March 2024 with 65 employees, processing over $30 million in transactions with 100% month-over-month growth.
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