
Co-founder & CEO @upflowhq, (YCW20). Revolutionizing how B2B companies get paid, with an amazing team.
New York, USA
Joined January 2014
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How do B2B companies get paid today? Pretty much the same as in 1980. Crazy, but change won’t come overnight in B2B payments. It will come. We’re building the cutting edge technology to enable it at @UpflowHQ. Are you step 1 or 5 in terms of maturity? hubs.la/Q01FqMzZ0
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In the future, agents will run in the cloud, not on your laptop.
Today, we're launching @machine__0 backed by @ycombinator, a CLI that gives every agent its own persistent & powerful cloud computer.
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Running a company:
2020: can you survive a pandemic?
2021: still here? we’re going to give all of your competitors $100m series A rounds.
2022: wow, you made it? okay, all engineers cost $600,000/year now.
2023: nice job! okay, SVB failed and we’re going to take away your bank account.
2024: a survivor I see. but can you pivot from ai to crypto to defense tech back to ai-enabled defense tech in a 12 month period to stay relevant?
2025: unfortunately all of your competitors have raised $2b series B rounds. oh and only 500 engineers are relevant and they cost $100m/yr each.
2026: well, well, well. you’re still in business? let’s deploy the thunderclap of godlike LLMs from the heavens so all of your customers can rebuild your app in 2 hours. can you survive?
After 15 years learning from the best managers and coaches, & 10 years as manager / CEO, repeating the same productivity tips to all my direct reports, and countless trainings, I decided to write on « how to get things done as a manager » upflow.io/blog/inside-upflow… hope it helps!
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📰: Great article on @UpflowHQ's release of it's new B2B Payments product in @TechCrunch today. Shockingly🤯40% of B2B payments 💵 in the US 🇺🇸 are still paid via paper checks.🧠@AlexLouisy is looking to fix that🤝. Read more below⬇️
techcrunch.com/2024/10/23/ca…
Thanks @romaindillet and @TechCrunch. We’re excited to open a new chapter of our journey!
Cash collection startup Upflow also wants to handle B2B payments techcrunch.com/2024/10/23/ca… via @techcrunch
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I enjoyed this series of essays, and a microsite essay series with a PDF version is a very neat form factor, if one has a thesis one wants to spread.
situational-awareness.ai
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We couldn't be more excited to double down on 🧠@AlexLouisy and lead @UpflowHQ's $5M round alongside Hedosophia & @ycombinator. @UpflowHQ modernizes how finance leaders optimize their accounts receivable (aka get paid💸) & now also handles Payments🪙.
👀rb.gy/pk0ih0👀
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Jotted some thoughts about how AI opens up new killer app possibilities which can be wedges to systems of record
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As an INFJ, took me 3y to fo PR for @GetLago 🤣
So...here it is, we:
1️⃣ Have been building the OPEN SOURCE alternative to Stripe Billing under the radar
2️⃣ Are serving cos such as @MistralAI @togethercompute @Swanapi Juni
3️⃣Raised $22M led by @mattturck @FirstMarkCap
🧶⬇️
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Replying to @levie
@levie hit the nail on the head in his convo with @bgurley and @altcap regarding the impact that great cash collection can have on margin. @AlexLouisy and the team at @UpflowHQ agree and have built an amazing tool to improve your revenue predictability🎯
shorturl.at/mrsJ6
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In 2023, Upflow had a great year. But, more importantly, our customers had a successful year getting paid faster than ever before.
Our now 12,000 users improved their organisations’ cash flows, gained greater revenue predictability and unlocked new business opportunities by recovering their owed cash reserves.
Here are our 5 key highlights from 2023:
📷 Our merchants got paid…BIG: In 2023, Upflow facilitated the payment of over 8 million invoices, worth a total of $12 billion. This figure represents double the 2022 payment volume running through Upflow.
📷️ And they got paid quickly: Getting paid on time is literally what keeps a business in business. In 2023, 88% of the invoices paid through Upflow were settled within a week of their due date. Our Merchants had over 50000 invoices paid within a day of a reminder being sent!
📷 No invoice was left behind! You know those invoices that just sit there stagnant for over a year without being paid. Well, in 2023, Upflow merchants had 4,000 of these invoices paid, amounting to approximately $11 million. A merchant even had a 6 year old invoice paid through Upflow!
📷 Upflow users were more active than ever before: In 2023, Upflow merchants performed over 1.1 million actions within our platform. That yearly figure is almost equal to the total number of cumulative actions performed from Upflow’s launch to 2022!
📷 And merchants got deeper insight into their Accounts Receivable than ever before: With users racking up over 40,000 views of Premium Analytics in Upflow, users gained real-time insights enabling them to be proactive in credit control strategies, and make better-informed financial forecasts.
Get all the detail in our blog post: upflow.io/blog/inside-upflow…
Thanks to all our merchants and here’s to an even better 2024!
#2023Highlights #AccountsReceivable #CashFlow
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First launch on @Producthunt... and @Lago is Product of the Day! 🥇
Thanks everyone for sharing the post, love and support!
Thanks to you, @GetLago:
- got 1000+ upvotes
- had 350+ comments
- ranked Product of the Day!
The launch was also a lot of fun👇🙈
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New podcast alert! In this conversation, @AlexLouisy from @upflowhq and I discuss:
* Experience with startups and YCombinator
* Outdated B2B payment methods
* Hire senior experienced people or younger hustlers
And much more!
Listen here - bit.ly/3YDJFCj
Enjoy!
Very interesting article by @mattbrown and why monetizing #SaaS product is also important in fintech.
1/ Interchange is a burning platform
Why is interchange a bad business model for many fintechs and what are the smart ones are doing about it?
notes.mtb.xyz/p/interchange-…
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📊 Looking for centralized and real-time AR metrics? We want to help companies get a better hold on their AR management. That’s why we’re launching Discover - our free plan. 🤩
Sign up here 👉 hubs.la/Q01qQQyT0
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Featuring the CEO of Upflow, @AlexLouisy.
Alex is the CEO of Upflow.io, a fintech startup on a mission to revolutionize how B2B businesses get paid. He started his investment banking career before overseeing the international expansion of Wifirst—a telecom company.
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One interesting fact is that 16 of the top companies are from the very recent W20 batch (and 8 of those W20 companies were in my group).
YC founders that thrived during the uncertainty of 2020 are incredible. Great companies are built in uncertain times
ycombinator.com/blog/y-combi…
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Will we soon receive "memos" saying we should have *40 months* of runway even at pre-seed/seed?
like @seanwdoolan @ClementDelangue point out?
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Replying to @byAnhtho @sarkissianraff1 @getqonto @Scaleway @kdeldycke @arnon86 @algolia @segment @UpflowHQ @AlexLouisy @bvnixon @snowflake @AWS
@UpflowHQ by @AlexLouisy is a platform that solely focuses on cash collection. This topic is no joke.
It's what @LatticeHQ and @FrontHQ use btw!




















