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Slicker

Recover payment failures and maximize subscription Revenue

slickerhq.com
HQ: London, England, United Kingdom
1-10
Fintech

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Jul 30, 2026

Overview

Slicker is a London-based YC S23 startup building AI-powered failed payment recovery software for subscription businesses. Its platform uses machine learning, adaptive retry timing, hyper-personalized dunning, and payment analytics to reduce involuntary churn and recover recurring revenue.

Primary product

AI-powered failed payment recovery platform for subscription businesses

Founded

2023

Headquarters

London, United Kingdom

Team size

1-10

Industry

Technology, Information and Internet

Sub-industry

AI payment recovery / payment orchestration software

Offices

London, United Kingdom
Dover, Delaware, United States

Business model

B2B SaaS
performance-based pricing
success-based pricing

Funding

Stage

pre-seed

Total raised

$500K

Latest round

Pre Seed Round · Sep 2023

Latest amount

$500K

Pre Seed Round

Sep 2023 · Y Combinator

$500K

People & investors

Leadership

Dani Penev

Chief Executive Officer

Ivan Valkov

Chief Technology Officer

Investors

SMOK Ventures
Y Combinator

Work & culture

Public materials emphasize transparency, statistical rigor, and performance accountability. Slicker repeatedly highlights no-code setup, controlled AABB testing, and pay-for-success pricing; no public employee benefits page was found.

Product & market

Pricing

Performance-based / success-based pricing; no fixed tiers or upfront costs; customers pay for proven recovered revenue.

Differentiators

  • —AABB testing to prove incremental lift
  • —pay-for-success pricing
  • —no-code drop-in integration
  • —adaptive AI retry timing
  • —hyper-personalized dunning
  • —works alongside existing billing stacks
  • —analytics across one-time and recurring payments
  • —transparent lift measurement

Technology

machine learning
AABB split testing
AI assistant
Stripe Billing
Chargebee
Recurly
Zuora
Recharge
Stripe App Marketplace
AES-256 encryption
TLS 1.3
RBAC
audit logging
24/7 monitoring

Customers

Brand24

Competitors

FlexPay
Butter
Churn Buster
Chargebee Smart Retries
Stripe Smart Retries

Scale & contact

Estimated monthly visits

509

Traffic estimate as of Sep 2025

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Latest news

AI for Failed Payment Recovery in Subscription SaaS (July 2026)

Slicker Blog · Jul 2026

Explains how Slicker uses MACs, issuer patterns, geography, and pay-cycle signals to optimize retries and route hard declines to dunning.

Prove It, Don't Promise It: Payment Recovery Lift Evaluation

Slicker Blog · Jul 2026

Detailed AABB testing playbook by the founders focused on statistically rigorous lift measurement and avoiding selection bias and Simpson's paradox.

Pay-for-success smart dunning: How Slicker changes startup economics

Slicker Blog · Jan 2026

Describes the company's performance-based pricing, no-code setup, and free-first-month offer as part of its go-to-market approach.

2025 Payment-Recovery Benchmark: Slicker vs FlexPay vs Butter—Which AI Engine Saves the Most MRR for 10 k Subscribers?

Slicker Blog · Jul 2025

Benchmark post comparing Slicker to FlexPay and Butter; highlights no-code integration, pay-for-success pricing, and claims of materially better recovery economics.

Slicker now available on the Stripe App Marketplace

Slicker Blog · Feb 2025

Announces the Stripe App Marketplace launch, improving onboarding for Stripe Billing users and positioning Slicker as a failed-payment recovery tool for subscription businesses.

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