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Levelset found the missing link between doing the work and getting paid
A missing waiver can hold up a perfectly good invoice. Levelset built a business around that awkward fact - and Procore bought it for approximately $500 million.
Chris Woodard Is Making Construction's Paper Trail Pay
The Handle co-founder moved from measuring marketing funnels to untangling liens, waivers and late payments. Now he is helping turn construction's paperwork into a connected financial system - with AI waiting on clean data.
The $160 Billion Spreadsheet Problem Handle Wants to Pour Into Concrete
Construction payments come wrapped in waivers, deadlines and state-by-state rules. Handle turned that paperwork trap into a software platform now touching more than $160 billion in invoices and financial workflows.
Two Stanford Classmates Bet That Americans Drowning in Debt Would Rather Be Helped Than Hustled
Two Stanford classmates spent two decades building a debt company most people never heard of. Then they renamed it Achieve, wired it to AI, and bet 2 million struggling households on one idea: do the customer's math first.
Karthik Nandyal
Karthik Nandyal is the co-founder and co-CEO of CredCore, a New York vertical-AI company building an end-to-end platform for the roughly $5 trillion enterprise debt capital markets. A two-time founder and long-time capital markets technologist, he previously ran product and R&D for Reliance Jio's Financial Innovation Group and held roles at BNP Paribas, Instinet (Reuters), and IBM, and earlier co-founded the fashion visual-search startup Styloot. In February 2025 CredCore raised a $16M Series A led by Avataar Ventures, and its AI platform now supports oversight of more than $650B in assets under management.
Dill
Dill is a San Francisco fintech, founded in 2022 and backed by Y Combinator (W23), that helps construction wholesalers, distributors, and suppliers get paid faster. Its software digitizes the paper-heavy back office of the building-materials trade - online credit applications, accounts-receivable automation, white-labeled payment portals, and lien-rights tracking - and plugs into distribution ERPs like Epicor Prophet 21 and Eclipse. The pitch is simple: suppliers spend less time chasing invoices and more time selling.
Billtrust
Billtrust is a cloud-based fintech that automates the entire order-to-cash and invoice-to-cash cycle for B2B businesses - credit decisioning, online ordering, invoice delivery, payments, cash application, and collections. Founded in 2001 by Flint Lane, it went public via SPAC in 2021 (Nasdaq: BTRS) and was taken private by EQT in late 2022 for about $1.7 billion. Its Business Payments Network connects buyers, suppliers, and banks to move trillions in B2B payments with far less manual work.