Paper provides embedded financial infrastructure for platforms to offer payments and payouts.
$34MSeries A
Accel backing an embedded payments play at $34M signals the category is past proof-of-concept—platforms are now willing to bet on non-Stripe alternatives for checkout UX. Paper's likely burning this on sales/partnerships to lock in platform integrations before the space consolidates. If you're building any kind of marketplace or creator platform, this matters: embedded payments are becoming table-stakes for retention, not a nice-to-have, which means your payment flow is now a competitive moat worth designing for.