Ballerine
YC S22Tel Aviv-Yafo, IL · Founded 2022 · 16 employees · 4 known investors
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Ballerine provides AI-powered merchant policy fit analysis that evaluates whether merchants' business activities align with acceptable use policies (AUP). The platform analyzes text, images, and rich media across merchants' digital presence to detect policy violations with audit-ready evidence for financial services companies, payment processors, and platforms managing merchant portfolios.
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AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSComplianceFraud DetectionIsraelMiddle East and North Africa
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (S22)
Ballerine was founded in 2022 by Noam Izhaki, Nitzan Gelbard, and Alon Peretz.
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Noam IzhakiinCo-Founder and CEO
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Nitzan GelbardinCo-Founder and CPOHe previously held a user experience leadership role in financial services and studied graphic design at Wizo Design Academy.
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Alon PeretzinCo-Founder and CTO
Investors · 4
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$5M disclosed across 1 round · 2023
- $5MSeedMay 2023 · 2 sourcesSource ↗
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Competitors · 10
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Airwallex32 shared keywordsAirwallex operates a global banking platform that provides cross-border payments, financial infrastructure, and AI-powered financial software for businesses. The platform serves companies across 200+ countries, enabling automated financial operations, expense management, and billing for global enterprises and AI-native businesses.
Adyen32 shared keywordsAdyen is a payments platform that enables enterprises to accept, process, and move money across their business, with capabilities for embedded finance and financial product issuance.
Papaya Global30 shared keywordsPapaya Global is a workforce payments platform that runs payroll, employer-of-record hiring, contractor management and cross-border payments for companies employing people in more than 160 countries. Founded in 2016 by Eynat Guez, Ofer Herman and Ruben Drong, it treats global payroll as a payments problem and holds its own payment licences after acquiring Azimo in 2022.
ACI Worldwide29 shared keywordsACI Worldwide provides payments software for banks, merchants, and billers, including a cloud-based payments hub, merchant payment orchestration, bill payment, and AI-based fraud management. Its platforms serve financial institutions and businesses across industries such as retail, utilities, insurance, government, and healthcare in 94 countries.
Jetlore29 shared keywordsJetlore was a Palo Alto AI startup that turned unstructured retail product data into structured attributes so merchants could personalise what each shopper saw. Founded by Stanford researchers, it raised from Sierra Ventures, Alsop Louie Partners, Fenox Venture Capital, BRM Capital and Mercury Fund, and PayPal acquired it in 2018.
Checkout29 shared keywordsCheckout.com offers Flow, a hosted payment page that businesses can deploy with a low-code, one-time integration to accept payments online. The page can be customized to match a site's branding for a consistent checkout experience.
Razorpay28 shared keywordsRazorpay provides payment processing APIs and financial services for online merchants, schools, and ecommerce businesses, offering payment acceptance, disbursement, current accounts, and working capital loans. The company serves businesses looking to accept and manage payments online with developer-friendly integration.
GoCardless28 shared keywordsGoCardless provides bank payment collection and open banking data access services. The platform enables businesses to collect domestic and international payments via bank accounts and securely access customer bank account data across 2,300+ banks in the UK and Europe.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Ballerine do?
- Ballerine provides AI-powered merchant policy fit analysis that evaluates whether merchants' business activities align with acceptable use policies (AUP). The platform analyzes text, images, and rich media across merchants' digital presence to detect policy violations with audit-ready evidence for financial services companies, payment processors, and platforms managing merchant portfolios.
- Who founded Ballerine?
- Ballerine was founded by Noam Izhaki, Nitzan Gelbard, Alon Peretz in 2022.
- Who are Ballerine's investors?
- Ballerine's investors include Dallas Venture Capital, Moneta VC, Treasury, Y Combinator.
- How much funding has Ballerine raised?
- Ballerine has disclosed $5M raised across 1 round.
- Where is Ballerine headquartered?
- Ballerine is headquartered in Tel Aviv-Yafo, IL.