aid: balanced
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/balanced.png
name: Balanced
description: Balanced was a payments API for online marketplaces and crowdfunding
  platforms, founded out of Y Combinator (W2011) and backed by Andreessen Horowitz
  (a16z), SV Angel, Collaborative Fund, and angels including Brian Chesky and Ashton
  Kutcher. It offered a developer-first API for processing cards and bank (ACH) payments,
  paying out to sellers, and handling seller identity/underwriting for marketplaces.
  Balanced announced on 2015-03-13 that it was shutting down its payments platform
  and gave customers 90 days notice, striking a transition deal that migrated card,
  bank account, and seller identity data to Stripe by 2015-06-11. The company and
  its API are defunct; the balancedpayments.com domain is now a parked/lander page
  and the api/docs hosts no longer resolve.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/balanced/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
- SV Angel
- Collaborative Fund
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-defunct-date: '2015-06-11'
x-shutdown-announced: '2015-03-13'
x-migrated-to: stripe
x-founded-via: y-combinator-w2011
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Payments
- Fintech
- Marketplace Payments
- ACH
- Developer API
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence