<p>Merge builds integration infrastructure for LLMs, Fortune 500 organizations, and B2B SaaS companies. Its Unified API platform lets companies add hundreds of integrations across HR, payroll, accounting, CRM, and other categories to their external applications and AI agents through a single build. Merge also offers a governance and security layer that gives enterprises control over how their AI agents interact with third-party applications.</p> <p>Funding: $75 million from Accel Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Addition and others.</p> <p>Latest valuation: $325 million.</p> <p>Date of last valuation: October 2022.</p> <p>Bona fides: Merge’s 1,700 customers include OpenAI, Mistral AI, and Ramp.</p> <p>Reached $14 million in revenue in 2023, up from $8 million in 2022.</p> <p>Cofounders: CEO Shensi Ding, 31, and Gil Feig, 30, the duo are best friends from Columbia University, where both studied computer science.</p> <p>Headquarters: San Francisco, California.</p>
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 16, 2026
Merge is a connectivity and integration-infrastructure company founded in 2020. Its platform gives B2B software companies and AI products a normalized way to connect to, synchronize, and act across customers’ third-party business applications without building and maintaining each integration separately.
Primary product
Merge Unified: a unified API, embedded Merge Link connection UI, synchronization engine, observability tools, and 240+ integrations across HRIS/payroll, ATS, accounting, CRM, ticketing, file storage, knowledge base, and other categories. Merge also offers Agent Handler for connecting and governing AI agents with third-party tools.
Founded
2020
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
Approximately 100–150 employees; public third-party estimates vary.
Work style
Onsite
Industry
Software development
Sub-industry
Unified APIs, embedded integrations, developer infrastructure, and AI infrastructure
Offices
Business model
Leadership
Co-founder and CEO
Co-founder and CTO
Alexia Cohade
VP, Finance & Operations
Sarah Mazur
Senior Director of Engineering
Jessica Palay Sadow
Head of Marketing
Liam Naughton
Head of Recruiting
Chris
Head of Security
Merge publicly emphasizes an in-person, builder-oriented culture in San Francisco, New York, and Berlin. Its careers materials stress synchronous collaboration, close-knit teams, high ownership, and working directly with customers. The company has also publicly described extensive internal adoption of AI tools by engineering and other teams.
Work style
Onsite
Compensation
Public evidence indicates that Merge has historically emphasized startup ownership and equity as part of recruiting, but current salary bands or standardized compensation data were not found in the researched sources.
Pricing
The published Unified entry plan provides the first 3 production linked accounts free, then costs $650/month for up to 10 production linked accounts, with additional linked accounts listed at $65/month. Professional and Enterprise offerings are contract-priced and may include custom fields, higher sync frequencies, sandboxes, SSO, audit trails, SLAs, and dedicated support.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
Approximately $10 million–$25 million in annual revenue; one third-party estimate reported $20.8 million ARR for 2024, while later media coverage reported revenue above $20 million.
Estimated monthly visits
200.3K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Merge described 2025 as a fundamental internal reset around AI, including repositioning the business, launching AI products, and changing operating practices. This is a strategic transition signal rather than evidence of financial distress.
SourceCo-founder Gil Feig publicly referred to receiving “devastating news” at Merge and said the company was hiring for dozens of roles. The available public excerpt does not establish whether this involved layoffs, an acquisition, or another event, so the event remains unverified.
SourceMerge · Dec 2025
Merge reported a major AI-oriented strategic shift, the launch of Agent Handler, expanded security and governance capabilities, a new Knowledge Base category, and infrastructure supporting 1.1 billion daily API requests.
Merge · Oct 2025
Merge launched Agent Handler to connect AI agents to third-party systems and centralize tool management, governance, monitoring, and connector access.
Merge · Jun 2025
Merge described Mistral AI’s use of its file-storage integrations, ACLs, and synchronization capabilities for enterprise AI search, reporting faster launch and reduced integration-maintenance work.
Merge · Apr 2025
Merge introduced an MCP server exposing its integration endpoints as tools for LLMs, with support for authentication, rate limits, pagination, ACLs, and observability.
Merge · Dec 2024
Merge reported more than 13,000 customers, a new Berlin office, European expansion, 30% of customers in Europe, new integrations, and major investment in product quality, scalability, and security.
19 jobs at Merge