Stripe, Inc. is an Irish-American multinational financial services and software as a service (SaaS) company dual-headquartered in South San Francisco, California, United States, and Dublin, Ireland. The company primarily offers payment-processing software and application programming interfaces for e-commerce websites and mobile applications.

Scale was founded in 2016 by Alexandr Wang and Lucy Guo who had previously worked at Quora.

When the company was first conceived, it supplied human labour to perform tasks that algorithms could not. Accel partner Dan Levine offered to provide $4.5 million in seed funding to Scale and his basement as a temporary headquarters. Within months, Wang and Guo realized Scale could fill the needs for autonomous vehicle (AV) companies by being able to review and label its driving footage data used to train their AI applications. Other investors of Scale included Dragoneer Investment Group, Tiger Global Management and Index Ventures.

Zapier is an American multinational software company that provides integrations for web applications for use in automated workflows.

Zapier provides workflows that allow different web applications to be used in the same workflow. Their products focus on automating recurring tasks, such as lead management. Users can set up "rules" that set up the flow of data between different tools and services.