Allowance

Allowance

The spend control layer for AI agents

San Francisco
1 employees
Pre-seed

About Allowance

Allowance lets AI agents make purchases on a user’s behalf without ever exposing your real card number.

Users approve purchases directly from their iPhone with customizable controls like spending limits, merchant restrictions, and expiration windows. Once approved, Allowance generates scoped, one-time payment credentials designed specifically for that transaction.

This enables AI agents to safely complete tasks like shopping, ordering food, booking reservations, or purchasing tickets while keeping humans in control of every payment.

Company details

Team Size1
LocationSan Francisco

Funding

Last stage

Pre-seed

Investors

Y Combinator

Founders

Dasmer Singh

Dasmer Singh

Dasmer Singh is the founder of Allowance, a platform building programmable payment controls for AI agents. Previously he was Head of Product for Cash App Families, where he built financial products for teens and parents. Earlier he worked at Uber, Petal, and Venmo. He studied at Columbia University and Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.