Startupsby GlyphWhy it ranks
How the rank works- went through YCProgram · this site+4
- team of 2Team size · YC's directory+2.5
A sum of public facts, not a judgement and not investment advice.
Competitors
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI | Not stated | speedrunSR007 | |
| AI | Active | YCS15 | |
| AI, Data | Not stated | Plug and Play | |
| AI | Not stated | Antler2024 | |
| Other | Acquired | YCW22 |
Adjacent
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZoomerShared: high volume, growingYC S14InactiveOther | Other | Inactive | YCS14 |
| Other | Inactive | YCS13 | |
| FreightifyShared: trillion dollarAlchemist Class 28Not statedOther | Other | Not stated | AlchemistClass 28 |
| Other | Not stated | 500 Global2021 | |
| AI | Active | YCW23 |
Also from W26 in AI
All of W26Founders
- Sean BoltonFounder/CEO
- David NewellFounder
About End Close
End Close builds automatic reconciliation for payments companies like fintechs, marketplaces, banks and payroll companies. Reconciliation helps companies track every dollar and resolve every exception, ensuring they have no money loss, can report audit ready financials, and stay compliant. Sean (CEO) spent the last 6 years building the reconciliation org at Modern Treasury (S18), processing a trillion dollars in payments across 40 banks with 99.995% automation. Fast growing companies like Modern Treasury are forced to build a solution in-house or buy a legacy solution. End Close provides a modern reconciliation system that works with a company's existing stack and is managed by AI agents. Exception handling is where 99% of the manual work happens today, payment ops teams spend hours gathering context across various data sources to investigate each ticket. End Close provides an AI ops agent that connects to a company's data warehouse, invoicing platform and payment processors to triage and resolve issues without human intervention. Legacy providers only provide reconciliation for month end close applications. End Close continuously reconciles with developer friendly APIs, allowing teams to integrate real time payments data within their products to create product experiences for customers like faster balance top-ups, instant trading etc. New payment rails and agent-to-agent payments are increasing online transaction volumes, making reconciliation a growing challenge for companies. David (CTO and 2nd time YC founder) most recently built these kinds of high-scale ingestion pipelines when starting and leading error tracking at PostHog (W20), the fastest growing product in the company's history.
- YC batch
- W26 · Winter 2026
- Status, per YC
- Active
- Category
- AI
- Team size
- 2
- Founded
- 2026
- Checked
- 6h ago
Changes seen
Newly tagged Fintech and Payments.
End Close: questions
Which YC batch was End Close in?
End Close was in Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch (W26).
Is End Close still active?
Y Combinator lists End Close as active.
Who founded End Close?
End Close's founders, as listed on its YC page: Sean Bolton (Founder/CEO), David Newell (Founder).