Maven
Maven is a YC Winter 2026 (W26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 2.
About Maven
Summary
Maven builds payment infrastructure for AI voice agents and chatbots, letting them collect card payments mid-call or mid-chat without interrupting the conversation. Companies building conversational agents use a single API call to hand off to Maven, which captures card data, processes the charge, and returns the caller, keeping card data off the agent company's servers entirely. Maven replaces the broken pattern of dropping a checkout link or forcing a human handoff whenever a customer needs to pay.
Business model
A free tier to start, with paid access to the full gateway network and processing infrastructure.
Go-to-market
AI voice agent and chatbot developers in B2B markets adopt Maven self-serve through a free trial and API documentation, integrating once to reach 25 payment gateways or their own processor.
From the Y Combinator listing
Payments Infrastructure for Voice Agents
We enable AI voice agents to collect payments over the phone through a single API call, handling card processing and PCI compliance across all payment gateways
Facts
- B2B / B2B -> Infrastructure
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 2
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
- Wasi Ahmed
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