Dots 💸
Developer friendly drop in payouts infrastructure
Y CombinatorSummer 2021ActiveFintechPaymentsFintechPaymentsAPICreator Economy
What they do
Problem
Businesses that need to pay contractors and gig workers face complex, time-consuming compliance, payment-rail, and tax workflows to run payouts.
Solution
Dots provides a developer-friendly payouts API that handles KYC, multi-rail payments, and tax form filing through a few lines of code.
Who it's for
Developers at marketplaces, gig platforms, and businesses that pay contractors use it to implement payouts.
Founders
Sahil Hasan
Founder
Co-founder and CEO @ Dots. Previously at Google X and Google Research. EECS + Regents @ UC Berkeley, MSCS @ Carnegie Mellon.
Kartikye Mittal
Co-Founder
Open roles 1
Staff Software Engineer, Generalist
Company timeline
- Founded2021
- YC batchSummer 2021
- StatusActive
- Team size10 people
- LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA
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