End Close
YC W26Founded 2026 Β· 2 employees Β· 1 known investors
End Close provides automatic transaction reconciliation for high-volume payment companies using deterministic rules and AI agents to match transactions, investigate exceptions, and enable continuous compliance reporting. The platform integrates with payment processors, banks, and internal systems via APIs and webhooks to automate month-end close processes for fintech and payments operations teams.
Founders & leadershipΒ· Y Combinator alumni (W26)
End Close was founded in 2026 by Sean Bolton and David Newell.
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Sean BoltoninπCo-Founder and CEOHe previously spent six years at Modern Treasury as a payments engineering tech lead and later led the reconciliation organization, where he helped scale the platform to handle hundreds of billions in annual payments volume.
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David NewellinπCo-Founder and CTOPreviously, he led error tracking product development at PostHog, founded Unflow, and worked as a product engineer at Intercom and Basecamp.
Investors Β· 1
Competitors Β· 5
by search overlap
Blackline Systems8 shared keywordsBlackLine offers a cloud platform for financial operations, including account reconciliation, intercompany accounting, and financial close automation. It also provides Verity AI, a multi-agent system that automates tasks such as documentation analysis, transaction matching, and audit-ready reconciliations for accounting and finance teams.
Close7 shared keywordsClose is a CRM platform that provides sales software for businesses, emphasizing communication features and automated data entry to improve sales representative productivity.
FirstClose6 shared keywordsFirstClose provides a software platform that helps financial institutions run and automate their home equity lending process, including real-time equity modeling, soft credit pulls, prequalification, order management, and a vetted provider marketplace. It serves banks and mortgage lenders in the U.S. seeking to reduce application drop-off and shorten time to close.
Hyperbots5 shared keywordsHyperbots offers an agentic AI platform with finance-specific "co-pilots" that automate accounts payable and receivable tasks such as invoice processing, accruals, procurement, payments, sales tax verification, vendor management, collections, and cash application. The platform uses AI agents pre-trained on financial documents and integrates with ERPs like NetSuite, SAP S/4HANA, Sage, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and QuickBooks for finance and accounting teams.
Highradius3 shared keywordsHighRadius provides software for order-to-cash and treasury finance operations, including credit, collections, deductions, cash application, and invoicing and payments automation. It serves large enterprises and Fortune 1000 companies looking to improve financial performance metrics such as Days Sales Outstanding.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does End Close do?
- End Close provides automatic transaction reconciliation for high-volume payment companies using deterministic rules and AI agents to match transactions, investigate exceptions, and enable continuous compliance reporting. The platform integrates with payment processors, banks, and internal systems via APIs and webhooks to automate month-end close processes for fintech and payments operations teams.
- Who founded End Close?
- End Close was founded by Sean Bolton, David Newell in 2026.
- Who are End Close's investors?
- End Close's investors include Y Combinator.