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Seed (YC)Grade - Pay Your Creators and Stay Compliant Creator payout and compliance platform.
Raised $500K across 1 funding round. Latest: $500K Seed (Jan 2026). Investors: Y Combinator. (High).
Funding
Raised $500K across 1 funding round. Latest: $500K Seed (Jan 2026). Investors: Y Combinator. (High).
Product / news
2 product/news‑styled row(s); headline risk without filings (High).
Verified facts
We raised $7.3M to build an open-source stack for industrial-grade LLM apps https://www.tensorzero.com/blog/tensorzero-raises-7-3m-seed-round-to-build-an-open-source-stack-for-industrial-grade-llm-applications/
Electra found a cheap, clean way to purify iron, and it’s raising $257M to make it happen https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/03/electra-found-a-cheap-clean-way-to-purify-iron-and-its-raising-257m-to-make-it-happen/
Upgrade has raised $62M in Series C funding https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/23/upgrade-the-newest-lending-startup-of-lending-club-founder-renaud-laplanche-has-raised-62-million-in-series-c-funding/
Emm raises $9M seed to create one of the world’s first ‘smart’ menstrual cups https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/emm-raises-9m-seed-to-create-to-launch-one-of-the-worlds-first-smart-menstrual-cups/
Financial risk management platform Pillar raises $20M seed in round led by a16z https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/financial-risk-management-platform-pillar-raises-20m-seed-in-round-led-by-a16z/
YC W26 batch; performance-based payroll API for creator and contractor payouts.
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Strongest / recent news-style rows
hn_algolia · Sun, Jun 28, 07:29 PM · confidence 98%high quality
techcrunch · Sun, Jun 28, 07:29 PM · confidence 98%high quality
hn_algolia · Sun, Jun 28, 07:29 PM · confidence 98%high quality
Newest first · 18 event(s)
Source: Blog
Expert guides on UGC marketing, creator payments, and scaling mobile apps.
Source: hn_algolia
We raised $7.3M to build an open-source stack for industrial-grade LLM apps https://www.tensorzero.com/blog/tensorzero-raises-7-3m-seed-round-to-build-an-open-source-stack-for-industrial-grade-llm-applications/
Source: techcrunch
Electra found a cheap, clean way to purify iron, and it’s raising $257M to make it happen https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/03/electra-found-a-cheap-clean-way-to-purify-iron-and-its-raising-257m-to-make-it-happen/
Source: hn_algolia
Upgrade has raised $62M in Series C funding https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/23/upgrade-the-newest-lending-startup-of-lending-club-founder-renaud-laplanche-has-raised-62-million-in-series-c-funding/
Source: techcrunch
Emm raises $9M seed to create one of the world’s first ‘smart’ menstrual cups https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/emm-raises-9m-seed-to-create-to-launch-one-of-the-worlds-first-smart-menstrual-cups/
Source: techcrunch
Financial risk management platform Pillar raises $20M seed in round led by a16z https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/financial-risk-management-platform-pillar-raises-20m-seed-in-round-led-by-a16z/
Source: official_site
Grade - Pay Your Creators and Stay Compliant Features Customers Solutions Compliance Get Started Features Customers Solutions For Brands Pay your creators. We handle compliance. For Agencies One platform for all your clients. For Marketplaces Built-in payouts…
Source: official_site
Grade Blog | Grade Try Grade Blog Log in Book Demo Featured Post Video Make Your Numbers Undeniable Before Selling Your App When you're looking to sell your app, buyers don't care about your vision. They care about math. James Heaney February 2, 202…
YC W26 batch; performance-based payroll API for creator and contractor payouts.
Creator payout and compliance platform.
Source: npm_registry
calculate the letter grade for a given percentage
Source: npm_registry
Grade API quality and share diagnostics using Spectral-compatible linting
Source: npm_registry
Core grading library for api-grade — standalone, framework-agnostic
Source: npm_registry
DuckDuckGo's privacy grade algorithm
Source: npm_registry
MCP server exposing api-grade capabilities for LLMs and agentic AI tooling
YC launch on scaling creator payments with compliance.
3 row(s)
The company's own site — the authoritative description of what they sell and to whom. Marketing-controlled, so treat claims as positioning rather than verified traction.
Grade - Pay Your Creators and Stay Compliant Features Customers Solutions Compliance Get Started Features Customers Solutions For Brands Pay your creators. We handle compliance. For Agencies One platform for all your clients. For Marketplaces Built-in payouts…
Why it matters: Primary source — the company's own positioning; best read for what they sell and to whom, not for traction claims.
Open source ↗Grade Blog | Grade Try Grade Blog Log in Book Demo Featured Post Video Make Your Numbers Undeniable Before Selling Your App When you're looking to sell your app, buyers don't care about your vision. They care about math. James Heaney February 2, 202…
Why it matters: Primary source — the company's own positioning; best read for what they sell and to whom, not for traction claims.
Open source ↗Creator payout and compliance platform.
Why it matters: Primary source — the company's own positioning; best read for what they sell and to whom, not for traction claims.
Open source ↗3 row(s)
Third-party press coverage. Independent reporting corroborates company claims; repeated coverage across outlets is a momentum signal.
Why it matters: Independent coverage — third-party corroboration of company claims; recurring coverage indicates rising visibility.
Open source ↗Why it matters: Independent coverage — third-party corroboration of company claims; recurring coverage indicates rising visibility.
Open source ↗YC launch on scaling creator payments with compliance.
Why it matters: Independent coverage — third-party corroboration of company claims; recurring coverage indicates rising visibility.
Open source ↗6 row(s)
Funding announcements and investor-database records. The strongest public signal of capitalization: round, amount, and syndicate quality when disclosed.
We raised $7.3M to build an open-source stack for industrial-grade LLM apps https://www.tensorzero.com/blog/tensorzero-raises-7-3m-seed-round-to-build-an-open-source-stack-for-industrial-grade-llm-applications/
Why it matters: Funding signal — Seed per this source; verify against the linked original before relying on it.
Open source ↗Electra found a cheap, clean way to purify iron, and it’s raising $257M to make it happen https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/03/electra-found-a-cheap-clean-way-to-purify-iron-and-its-raising-257m-to-make-it-happen/
Why it matters: Funding signal — funding round per this source; verify against the linked original before relying on it.
Open source ↗Upgrade has raised $62M in Series C funding https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/23/upgrade-the-newest-lending-startup-of-lending-club-founder-renaud-laplanche-has-raised-62-million-in-series-c-funding/
Why it matters: Funding signal — Series C per this source; verify against the linked original before relying on it.
Open source ↗Emm raises $9M seed to create one of the world’s first ‘smart’ menstrual cups https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/emm-raises-9m-seed-to-create-to-launch-one-of-the-worlds-first-smart-menstrual-cups/
Why it matters: Funding signal — seed per this source; verify against the linked original before relying on it.
Open source ↗Financial risk management platform Pillar raises $20M seed in round led by a16z https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/financial-risk-management-platform-pillar-raises-20m-seed-in-round-led-by-a16z/
Why it matters: Funding signal — seed per this source; verify against the linked original before relying on it.
Open source ↗YC W26 batch; performance-based payroll API for creator and contractor payouts.
Why it matters: Funding signal — Seed per this source; verify against the linked original before relying on it.
Open source ↗5 row(s)
Public engineering activity. Sustained commits, releases, and stars indicate real product development and, for dev tools, developer adoption.
calculate the letter grade for a given percentage
Why it matters: Engineering signal — public repo activity evidences active development and possible developer adoption.
Open source ↗Grade API quality and share diagnostics using Spectral-compatible linting
Why it matters: Engineering signal — public repo activity evidences active development and possible developer adoption.
Open source ↗Core grading library for api-grade — standalone, framework-agnostic
Why it matters: Engineering signal — public repo activity evidences active development and possible developer adoption.
Open source ↗DuckDuckGo's privacy grade algorithm
Why it matters: Engineering signal — public repo activity evidences active development and possible developer adoption.
Open source ↗MCP server exposing api-grade capabilities for LLMs and agentic AI tooling
Why it matters: Engineering signal — public repo activity evidences active development and possible developer adoption.
Open source ↗1 row(s)
Company blog and newsletters. Shipping cadence and technical depth of posts hint at product velocity and team quality.
Expert guides on UGC marketing, creator payments, and scaling mobile apps.
Why it matters: Company publishing — post cadence and depth hint at product velocity.
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