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Rex

AI-native BPO for enterprise order-to-cash

ActiveChecked 18h ago
Batch
S26
Status, per YC
Active
Team size
2
HQ
San Francisco, CA
In S26231 companies, 88% AI
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Founders

  • Merlin KafkaFounder/CEO
  • Lewis BlackwoodFounder/CTO

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About Rex

Rex is an AI-native service for order to cash. Rex replaces manual operations with AI agents that continuously manage invoices, customers and exceptions. Order to cash is a $60B outsourced function because the work is too messy for traditional automation. Every customer has different context, exceptions do not follow clean rules, and the next step is often buried in emails, portals, handoffs, or someone’s memory. Rex agents run continuously in the background and resolve work to SLA standards so cash keeps moving. We're live with pre-IPO tech companies, managing >$500m in receivables from F100 companies, cutting manual follow-up cycles from weeks to hours. We founded Rex after spending four years building Sequence, an a16z-backed finance ops platform, from zero to Series A — where we saw firsthand that at-scale, O2C still runs on manual labour. Rex is the #1 winner of the Vercel AI Accelerator out of 2,500 teams, selected by Guillermo Rauch and leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Browserbase and more.

San Francisco, CA, USA

Rex: questions

Which YC batch was Rex in?

Rex was in Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch (S26).

Is Rex still active?

Y Combinator lists Rex as active.

Who founded Rex?

Rex's founders, as listed on its YC page: Merlin Kafka (Founder/CEO), Lewis Blackwood (Founder/CTO).

Where is Rex based?

Rex lists San Francisco, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.

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