---
name: Increase
domain: increase.com
kind: product
relation: competitor
segment: platform payments and embedded finance
descGrounded: 0.6
---

# Increase

An API-first bank providing programmable payment and banking infrastructure for technology companies.

**Route:** surfaced by the platform payments and embedded finance lane's de-branded queries → competitor to stripe.com.

**Why it's on the map:** Sells the same embedded financial-services infrastructure — ACH, wires, real-time payments, card issuing, bank accounts — to the same technology companies that would evaluate the anchor for accepting payments and managing financial services via APIs.

**Receipts** (verbatim from its page this run):

> An API-first bank built for flexibility, reliability, and transparency.

> Comprehensive infrastructure to move, store, and lend money.

> Bare metal payments on every US rail

**Edges:**

- competitor [[checkout-com]]
- competitor [[plaid-com]]
- competitor [[nacha-org]]
- competitor [[avalara-com]]
- competitor [[webpays-com]]
- competitor [[geotargetly-com]]
- competitor [[bluefin-com]]
- competitor [[crystallize-com]]
- competitor [[inyoglobal-com]]
- competitor [[sticky-io]]
