Dots, a global payouts platform for marketplaces and service-based businesses, has raised fresh capital totalling $8.9m.
The firm secured $8.9m in a Series A round led by DCM, with participation from Y Combinator.
Dots provides infrastructure that lets businesses send funds to payees through multiple rails, aiming to simplify disbursements for platforms that need to pay large numbers of people quickly and reliably.
At its core, the company brings together several payment methods under a single API, including bank transfers and a range of consumer wallets, as well as stablecoins, to help payees receive money in the way that suits them, regardless of location.
Dots said the new funding will be used to expand its product offering, with ambitions to add financial features such as credit card processing, accounts payable and accounts receivable, while also supporting international expansion and new engineering hires.
The company also shared fresh operational detail, saying it is profitable and processes more than $150m in payouts each month, alongside 400% year-over-year revenue growth.
Alongside the funding announcement, Dots unveiled two new platform updates. It said its product is now entirely self-serve, enabling new customers to integrate and configure payouts without outside help, and allowing businesses to onboard and begin sending payments within hours. It also introduced an anti-fraud capability called Dots Control, which it said is designed to identify suspicious payouts and allow firms to create custom rules to automate fraud detection and prevention.
“Everyone talks about the future of payments, but most of that innovation has focused on companies receiving payment, not paying others,” Dots co-founder and CEO Sahil Hasan said, “The payout layer is broken, with companies and marketplaces having to reinvent the wheel to handle compliance, onboarding and cross-border disbursements. As a result, payments are slow. Dots solves this problem by unifying bank transfers, PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, and stablecoins under a single API, ensuring payees receive funds quickly, regardless of where they are based or their preferred payment type. This translates into greater loyalty among contractors and creators.”
“Beyond the large and growing total addressable market – the global payouts market is projected to triple by 2033 and the gig economy payments market is already in excess of $582 billion – what makes Dots compelling is its focus on both the developer and payee experience,” DCM partner Ibrahim AlSuwaidi said, “When workers and creators actually want to get paid through your platform, the result is an engine that helps to not only address compliance and payments, but also retain the best talent.”
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