Concept stage · Coming soon

Payments that feel as smooth as the name.

Cheesecake is a payments platform in formation — built by operators who helped scale Braintree through hundreds of billions in volume. We’re designing the next layer of merchant-friendly money movement. Not shipping yet. Building carefully.

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Team pedigree: Braintree alumni · ~$1.1T processed · ~20B transactions

The gap

Payments still punish complexity.

Merchants and platforms need clear pricing, reliable settlement, and APIs that don’t fight them. Legacy stacks bury that under layers of intermediaries and opaque fees.

Problem

  • Fragmented onboarding and compliance friction
  • Unclear economics for platforms and marketplaces
  • Tooling built for yesterday’s card-only world
  • Hard to reason about risk, settlement, and ops in one place

Our direction

  • Opinionated, developer-first payment primitives
  • Transparent economics and settlement visibility
  • Compliance and risk treated as product, not afterthought
  • Designed by people who’ve run this at scale

Exact product surface is still being defined. This page describes intent, not a live service.

Product pillars

High-level building blocks.

We’re not listing features we haven’t shipped. These are the pillars we’re designing around.

01

Accept

Clean checkout and payment method coverage without burying merchants in integration debt.

02

Move

Settlement, payouts, and money movement with visibility operators can actually use.

03

Govern

Risk, compliance, and controls as first-class product — not a bolt-on checklist.

04

Scale

Architecture and ops mindset from teams that have lived hypergrowth payments volume.

How it works

A simple path from interest to build.

We’re early. Here’s the honest sequence — no product theater.

  1. Share context

    Tell us who you are — merchant, platform, or partner — and what money-moving friction you’re navigating.

  2. Stay in the loop

    We send occasional updates when there’s something real: design milestones, early access windows, or research asks.

  3. Shape what’s next

    Select conversations help us validate pillars before we ship. Concept stage means listening first.

Founding team

Braintree alumni building the next chapter.

Collective experience across payments infrastructure at Braintree scale — approximately $1.1T processed and ~20B transactions. No invented customers. No vanity metrics.

  • Cory Monty

    Co-founder

    Braintree alumni. Payments operator focused on product clarity and merchant experience.

  • Anitha Williams

    Co-founder

    Braintree alumni. Deep experience in payments systems and go-to-market rigor.

  • Matt Lingle Engler

    Co-founder

    Braintree alumni. Engineering leadership across high-scale payments infrastructure.

  • Avi Levy

    Co-founder

    Braintree alumni. Product and platform thinking for money-moving systems.

Early access

Join the waitlist.

We’re in concept / formation. If you’re a merchant, platform, or investor who wants to follow along, drop us a note. No spam — just occasional updates when there’s something real to share.

Email [email protected] — join waitlist

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