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usegrade.comFintechCA, USA
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Investor read

Evidence-bound summary — expand sections for movement, risks, and signals.

Memo snapshot · May 20, 2026, 6:09 PM

Beta

DealFlow OS uses public web data and automated enrichment. Research may be incomplete, outdated, or incorrect. Verify important information before making investment or outreach decisions.

What they do

Grade - Pay Your Creators and Stay Compliant Creator payout and compliance platform.

Funding

Raised $500K across 1 funding round. Latest: $500K Seed (Jan 2026). Investors: Y Combinator. (High).

Quick read

  • •Grade - Pay Your Creators and Stay Compliant Creator payout and compliance platform.
  • •Reported angle: Grade - Pay Your Creators and Stay Compliant
  • •Indexed activity snapshot: 1 funding‑related row(s), 0 hiring‑related, 0 GitHub‑tagged, 2 product/news‑style — scoring reflects corpus coverage only.

Stage

Seed (YC)

Evidence summary

Verified facts

  • •Grade - Pay Your Creators and Stay Compliant Creator payout and compliance platform.
  • •Reported angle: Grade - Pay Your Creators and Stay Compliant
  • •Indexed activity snapshot: 1 funding‑related row(s), 0 hiring‑related, 0 GitHub‑tagged, 2 product/news‑style — scoring reflects corpus coverage only.

Recent movers

  • •May 11, 2026 · Blog / news — Grade - Pay Your Creators and Stay Compliant
  • •May 20, 2026 · ycombinator.com — Grade | Y Combinator
  • •May 20, 2026 · ycombinator.com — Launch YC: Grade
  • •May 11, 2026 · Blog / news — Grade - Pay Your Creators and Stay Compliant
  • •May 20, 2026 · ycombinator.com — Grade | Y Combinator
  • •May 20, 2026 · ycombinator.com — Launch YC: Grade
  • •Y Combinator

Funding

Raised $500K across 1 funding round. Latest: $500K Seed (Jan 2026). Investors: Y Combinator. (High).

Hiring

No hiring/careers evidence indexed (Low).

GitHub

No GitHub‑linked evidence indexed (Low).

Product / news

2 product/news‑styled row(s); headline risk without filings (High).

Traffic / social

No traffic/social evidence indexed (Low).

Funding & hiring signals

funding_articleMay 20, 2026Confidence: high

Grade | Y Combinator

YC W26 batch; performance-based payroll API for creator and contractor payouts.

Affected score: yesObserved: May 20, 2026Round: Seed
raisedseed
ReferenceApr 14, 2026Confidence: high

Financial risk management platform Pillar raises $20M seed in round led by a16z

Affected score: yesObserved: Apr 14, 2026Round: seedAmount: $20M
led byraises
ReferenceNov 19, 2025Confidence: high

Emm raises $9M seed to create one of the world’s first ‘smart’ menstrual cups

Affected score: yesObserved: Nov 19, 2025Round: seedAmount: $9M
raises
ReferenceJan 3, 2025Confidence: high

Electra found a cheap, clean way to purify iron, and it’s raising $257M to make it happen

Affected score: yesObserved: Jan 3, 2025Amount: $257M
funding roundfundingraisedraising
ReferenceConfidence: high

Venture-backed startup (Stealth Project Oscar) looking for Hacker co-founder

Affected score: yesObserved: Round: Seed
raisedfundingseed
ReferenceConfidence: high

We raised $7.3M to build an open-source stack for industrial-grade LLM apps

Affected score: yesObserved: Round: SeedAmount: $7.3M
raisedseed
ReferenceConfidence: high

Show HN: Largest collection of pitch deck, videos and memos to fund my education

Affected score: yesObserved: Round: Funding Round
fundingseed
ReferenceConfidence: high

Upgrade has raised $62M in Series C funding

Affected score: yesObserved: Round: Series CAmount: $62M
raisedfunding

Open roles (indexed)

No open roles indexed yet.

Failed or blocked links

  • public_page:_pressnot_found
    Last checked Mon, May 11, 04:32 AM

    HTTP 404

  • public_page:_newsnot_found
    Last checked Mon, May 11, 04:32 AM

    HTTP 404

  • public_page:_jobsnot_found
    Last checked Mon, May 11, 04:32 AM

    HTTP 404

  • public_page:_companynot_found
    Last checked Mon, May 11, 04:32 AM

    HTTP 404

  • public_page:_careersnot_found
    Last checked Mon, May 11, 04:32 AM

    HTTP 404

  • public_page:_aboutnot_found
    Last checked Mon, May 11, 04:32 AM

    HTTP 404

DealFlow growth score
42.0Limited recent public signal
7D-10%
30D-1%
Needs Review

The score is an algorithmic estimate based on observed public company-level signals. It may be incomplete, stale, or inaccurate and is not investment, legal, tax, or business advice.

Source health

  • public_market_enrichmentok
    Last checked Mon, May 11, 04:32 AM
  • public_page:_blogok
    Last checked Mon, May 11, 04:32 AM
  • public_page:_ok
    Last checked Mon, May 11, 04:32 AM
  • public_page:homeok
    Last checked Mon, May 11, 04:32 AM
  • githubok
    Last checked Thu, May 7, 01:30 AM

DealFlow score momentum

427D -1030D -1
100500
2026-05-20: 42

More runs will build history.

The score is an algorithmic estimate based on observed public company-level signals. It may be incomplete, stale, or inaccurate and is not investment, legal, tax, or business advice.

Signal breakdown

Latest momentum signal per category. Expand a card to inspect raw payloads.

Public source summary

Total evidence rows
4
Latest evidence
Wed, May 20, 06:09 PM

Source types found

blogcompany_sitefunding_articlepress

Strongest / recent news-style rows

  • Grade | Y Combinator

    Wed, May 20, 06:09 PM · confidence 88%high quality

    https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/grade

  • Launch YC: Grade

    Wed, May 20, 06:09 PM · confidence 85%medium quality

    https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PSG-grade-performance-based-payroll

Public signal timeline

Newest first · 4 event(s)

1
Wed, May 20, 06:09 PM · company_site · 85% · verified_publichigh quality

Grade - Pay Your Creators and Stay Compliant

Creator payout and compliance platform.

Source ↗
2
Wed, May 20, 06:09 PM · funding_article · 88% · verified_publichigh quality

Grade | Y Combinator

YC W26 batch; performance-based payroll API for creator and contractor payouts.

Source ↗
3
Mon, May 11, 04:32 AM · blog · 90% · publichigh quality

Grade - Pay Your Creators and Stay Compliant

Source: Blog / news

Expert guides on UGC marketing, creator payments, and scaling mobile apps.

Source ↗
4
Wed, May 20, 06:09 PM · press · 85% · verified_publicmedium quality

Launch YC: Grade

YC launch on scaling creator payments with compliance.

Source ↗

Official / company site

1 row(s)

company_site·Wed, May 20, 06:09 PM·Confidence 85%high qualityverified_public

Grade - Pay Your Creators and Stay Compliant

Creator payout and compliance platform.

https://usegrade.com/

News

1 row(s)

press·Wed, May 20, 06:09 PM·Confidence 85%medium qualityverified_public

Launch YC: Grade

YC launch on scaling creator payments with compliance.

https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/PSG-grade-performance-based-payroll

Funding / news

1 row(s)

funding_article·Wed, May 20, 06:09 PM·Confidence 88%high qualityverified_public

Grade | Y Combinator

YC W26 batch; performance-based payroll API for creator and contractor payouts.

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/grade

Blog

1 row(s)

blog·Mon, May 11, 04:32 AM·Confidence 90%high qualitypublic

Grade - Pay Your Creators and Stay Compliant

Source name: Blog / news

Expert guides on UGC marketing, creator payments, and scaling mobile apps.

https://usegrade.com/blog

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