We’re building the missing piece of checkout: the part that knows you came as a group. The boring infrastructure for an experience that’s never quite worked.
One of our founders fronted $4,200 for a friend’s wedding weekend: a house, a dinner, transportation. Three weeks later, two friends still hadn’t paid. The math was easy. The chasing was awful.
This is the universal experience of group spending in 2026: prices are quoted to groups, but every checkout button is built for one payer. Someone always fronts it. Someone always chases. Someone always gets left with the bag.
Ante is the buttonthat fixes this. It’s not a P2P app, it’s not a wallet. It’s checkout infrastructure that merchants drop in next to Apple Pay. One settled charge. Atomic refund if the group bails. Nobody gets stuck.
We’re hiring quietly. If this problem bothers you the way it bothers us, write and tell us what you’d want to work on.