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Monite provides embedded invoicing and accounts payable APIs for vertical SaaS platforms, allowing them to offer billing and payment automation to business customers without multi-year engineering investment.
Monite is an embedded finance platform that provides APIs for vertical SaaS companies and fintech platforms to embed invoicing, accounts payable, and payment automation features directly into their products. Rather than building billing and AP functionality from scratch — a multi-year engineering effort requiring accounting expertise, payment provider relationships, and compliance infrastructure — platforms integrate Monite's APIs to offer these capabilities to their business customers under their own brand. This embedded model allows SaaS platforms serving SMBs to become financial workflow hubs without becoming financial infrastructure companies themselves.
São Paulo Brazil YC W20 open banking API at 155B BRL ($31B) payments 2023 with 3x YoY growth and doubled net income; $58.2M total ($45M Ribbit/Bezos Series B 2022) serving Gol/Localiza/QuintoAndar competing for Brazil fintech infrastructure.
Stark Bank is a São Paulo, Brazil-based open banking API platform and digital business bank — backed by Y Combinator (W20) with $58.2 million in total funding including a $45 million Series B in April 2022 led by Ribbit Capital with Lachy Groom and Bezos Expeditions (Jeff Bezos's personal investment vehicle) — providing companies with payment processing infrastructure, banking APIs, and financial services built on Brazil's open banking framework. In 2023, Stark Bank processed 155 billion reais ($31 billion USD) in payments (3x year-over-year growth), doubled net income to 71.5 million reais, and serves 600+ enterprise clients including Gol Airlines, Localiza, Ultragaz, Loft, and QuintoAndar. Founded in 2018 by Rafael Stark.
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