Rebill

Alumni Q&A

How did your company get started? (i.e., How did the founders meet? How did you come up with the idea? How did you decide to be a founder?)

The founders began by addressing fragmented payments in Latin America, where companies faced low approval rates, missing local methods, hard-to-manage subscriptions, and separate setups per country. After helping merchants collect across the region, they concluded the core need was payment infrastructure rather than billing software, and shifted from recurring payments toward building that infrastructure.

How did you decide to apply to Y Combinator? What was your experience applying, going through the batch, and fundraising at demo day?

The founders applied to YC because they saw the payments-infrastructure category as larger than typically assumed and wanted to build something with global relevance rather than a regional tool. They say YC helped them sharpen their positioning around solving a fundamental infrastructure problem starting in LATAM.

How have you kept in touch with the YC community and continued to use YC resources & programs since the batch ended?

The company stays connected to the YC community through Bookface, founder relationships, and YC resources for fundraising, hiring, and product decisions.

What's the history of your company from getting started until the present day? What were the big inflection points?

The company started by handling recurring billing, subscriptions, and collections for merchants in Latin America. Two inflection points followed: recognizing that software alone was insufficient and that the deeper problem was payment infrastructure (local rails, methods, acquiring, recovery, settlement), and then moving closer to the rails to build direct infrastructure rather than relying only on third parties. It now builds a payments infrastructure layer for LATAM and the US.

What is the core problem you are solving? Why is this a big problem? What made you decide to work on it?

The founders address fragmented payment infrastructure faced by companies expanding across LATAM and similar markets, which need local methods, better conversion, subscription support, transparent settlement, and fast launches. They note the market relies on patchwork solutions and country-by-country complexity, and that poor payment performance lowers approval rates and revenue.

What is your long-term vision? If you truly succeed, what will be different about the world?

The founders aim to build a financial infrastructure layer for underserved markets, starting with payments in LATAM and the US. Their goal is to let companies integrate once and operate across complex markets without assembling fragmented providers, local entities, and manual workflows.