Rutter
YC S19New York City, US · Founded 2021 · 24 employees · Hiring · 19 known investors
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Rutter provides a Unified API that enables B2B SaaS companies to integrate business data and financial system connections into their products. The platform serves fintech companies and SMB-focused tools seeking to add robust accounting and commerce integrations to their workflow.
Also known as Lang API · Omnition · Prowess · Rutter · RutterAPI
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (S19)
Rutter was founded in 2021 by Eric Yu and Peter Zhou.


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Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$56.3M disclosed across 2 of 5 rounds · 2021–2026
- $27MSeries AMar 2022 · 2 sourcesSource ↗
▶$29.3MraisedMar 2022 · 49 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Peter ZhouExecutive Officer, Director
- Eric YuDirector
- Kristina ShenDirector
- Offering amount
- $29.3M
- Amount sold
- $29.3M
- First sale
- Feb 2022
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2019
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Rutter provides a unified RESTful API that lets B2B software and financial-services companies connect to commerce, payments, accounting and advertising platforms through a single integration and data model. The platform is organized around three pillars: Rutter Link, a white-labeled end-user authentication flow that handles permissions, data governance and consent monitoring; the Rutter APIs, which read, update, write and remove data across more than 60 platforms; and a dashboard providing visibility into the integration lifecycle, including authentication, data access, webhooks and data syncs.
Supported platforms span accounting systems such as QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop, NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Xero and Zoho Books; commerce platforms including Shopify, eBay, WooCommerce, Magento, Squarespace, Etsy, Shoplazza, Chargebee, Recurly and Chargify; payment processors such as Stripe, PayPal, Square and Clover; and ads platforms including Meta, TikTok and Google Ads. The API documentation also lists bank feed, HRIS and payroll connectors such as Plaid, MX, Teller, Intuit Bank Feeds, Gusto, Deel and Rippling.
Technically, Rutter exposes versioned endpoints under a production base URL with a separate sandbox environment, uses HTTP Basic Auth with client ID and secret plus per-connection access tokens, and supports webhooks, pagination, deduplication, rate limiting, asynchronous operations, idempotency, object filtering and platform passthrough data. Object coverage includes commerce foundations (customers, orders, products, fulfillments, stores), commerce metrics, payments, balances, payouts, subscriptions, transactions and agentic commerce products and checkouts. The company has also introduced Rutter Embedded ERP and AI agents intended to identify and score vendor payments for commercial card acceptance.
Business model
Rutter sells API infrastructure to other software and financial-services companies on a commercial contract basis rather than building end-user financial products itself. Customers embed Rutter Link for end-user authentication, call Rutter's unified REST endpoints to read and write data across their customers' commerce, accounting, payments and ads systems, and use the Rutter dashboard to monitor connections and syncs. Prospective customers can create an account and are guided through a product demo by the sales team.
Pricing is not published as a fixed list; Rutter states that pricing depends on the volume of connections, growth in connection volume over time, the product capabilities used, and which platforms the customer wants to integrate with.
Traction
Rutter reports serving more than 100 fintech companies and banks across 60+ platform integrations. Published customer outcomes include Orb shipping its first integration in 2.5 weeks versus an estimated 2+ months, Airwallex reporting a 70% reduction in build time, Numeral citing roughly $200,000 in annual engineering cost savings, and Brightflow AI implementing multiple integrations to deliver financial insights to SMBs.
Latest developments
Rutter has introduced Rutter Embedded ERP and a supplier-enablement offering that uses AI card acceptance analysis and AI agents to identify, score and switch vendor payments to commercial cards. Its API documentation includes agentic commerce endpoints for products and checkouts, and supports API versions 2024-08-31, 2024-04-30, 2023-03-14 and 2023-02-07.
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Market position
Rutter describes itself as a unified API for B2B financial products and reports being used by more than 100 fintech companies and banks. Third-party trackers catalogue it among ecommerce and unified API providers, listing roughly 76 APIs, four SDKs, webhook support and OpenAPI/Swagger specifications.
Rutter positions its differentiation on domain depth in finance and accounting rather than breadth alone: it argues that integrations for complex financial products require understanding of business processes, translation of those processes into accounting objects, and knowledge of the specific behaviors of individual accounting platforms. It also emphasizes write-back capability (read, update, write and delete across platforms), platform_data passthrough for source-level fields, a strict no-breaking-change policy on published API versions, and reliability; one customer, Uncapped, publicly cited 99.999% uptime with Rutter.
Technology
A versioned REST API with production and sandbox environments, HTTP Basic Auth using client ID and secret, per-connection non-expiring access tokens with rotation via an invalidate endpoint, and webhook events such as CONNECTION_UPDATED. Connections can be created programmatically or via a hosted Rutter Link URL that supports platform preselection, redirect URLs and prefilled store identifiers, with optional sync configuration controlling which entities are synced, historical timeframes and incremental sync frequency. The API returns standard HTTP error codes plus custom codes (450, 451, 452) that distinguish underlying platform errors from Rutter's own, and supports incremental syncs, data recovery backfills and connection status reporting.
Go-to-market
Rutter markets directly to product and engineering leaders at fintechs, banks and B2B software companies, using developer-facing assets (public API reference, quickstarts, Postman collection, SDKs and React/JavaScript quickstarts) alongside a sales-assisted motion with demos and published customer stories from Orb, Airwallex, Numeral, Brightflow AI and Uncapped. It has been described as an integration partner to fintech and commerce companies including Ramp, Mercury, Airwallex, Parafin and Wayflyer.
Fintech companies, banks and B2B software providers that need to integrate with their customers' accounting, commerce, payments and advertising systems—particularly product and engineering teams seeking to avoid building and maintaining individual platform integrations. Named customer stories include Orb, Airwallex, Numeral, Brightflow AI and Uncapped, and the company is cited as working with Ramp, Mercury, Parafin and Wayflyer.
Geography
Rutter is headquartered in San Francisco, United States, and its integration coverage spans platforms used globally, including regional commerce and accounting systems such as Lazada, Shopee, MercadoLibre, Salla, Zid, Fortnox, Visma, Lexware, Moneybird, Holded, Anfix and MYOB Business.
History
The company operated initially under the domain RutterAPI.com and later acquired and moved to the exact-match domain Rutter.com. In March 2022 it raised $27 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz, positioning itself as an infrastructure layer for commerce enablement and expanding its focus on the fintech vertical. Its product scope has since broadened from commerce data to accounting, payments and ads integrations, and more recently to embedded ERP and AI-based supplier enablement and card acceptance analysis.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
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Founder mafia
3 people who came through Rutter went on to found or lead other companies.
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Timeline · 3
launches, deals, and filingsRutter promotes Rutter Embedded ERP on its homepage alongside AI card acceptance analysis and AI agents for supplier enablement and commercial card spend.
The company, which began operating on the RutterAPI.com domain, acquired and moved to the exact-match domain Rutter.com.
Rutter announced a $27 million funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz to build infrastructure for commerce data.
$27M source ↗
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
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corporate structure▸Research sources · 8
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- Rutterapirutterapi.com · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Rutter do?
- Rutter provides a unified API connecting commerce, payments, accounting and ads platforms for B2B financial products.
- Who founded Rutter?
- Rutter was founded by Eric Yu, Peter Zhou in 2021.
- Who are Rutter's investors?
- Rutter's investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Capital 49, Fjor Founders, Haystack, Mantis Capital, Pioneer, Soma Capital, Y Combinator and 11 more.
- How much funding has Rutter raised?
- Rutter has disclosed $56.3M raised across 2 of its 5 known rounds.
- Where is Rutter headquartered?
- Rutter is headquartered in New York City, US.




















