YC Spring 2026 (P26) founder

Dasmer Singh

Founder of Allowance, The spend control layer for AI agents

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Company

Dasmer Singh is listed as a founder of 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.

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    Billions of hours of human effort go into navigating checkout flows every year. Allowance is changing this — just say what you want and AI agents handle checkout with spend-limited, one-time virtual cards. Quote Y Combinator @ycombinator · May 22 Allowance (@useallowance) lets AI agents safely make purchases using one-time virtual cards with built-in guardrails for things like travel booking, price tracking, reservations, and e-commerce checkout. Congrats on the launch, @dasmersingh! https:// ycombinator.com/launches/QS4-a llowance-virtual-cards-for-ai-agents …

    Billions of hours of human effort go into navigating checkout flows every year. Allowance is changing this — just say what you want and AI agents handle checkout with spend-limited, one-time virtual cards. Quote Y Combinator @ycombinator · May 22 Allowance (@useallowance) lets...

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    Ever hand over your credit card number over the phone or on an unfamiliar website... then wonder if it might be misused and charged again later? That ends today. Introducing One-Time Cards from @useallowance. Create a new card number for a single purchase, set a maximum amount

    Ever hand over your credit card number over the phone or on an unfamiliar website... then wonder if it might be misused and charged again later? That ends today. Introducing One-Time Cards from @useallowance. Create a new card number for a single purchase, set a maximum amount