Beam, a five-month-old startup out to more easily help general contractors pay subcontractors and get paid themselves, has raised $4 million in a seed funding round led by Accel.
Both the startup’s founder and lead investor previously spent years working at payments giant Stripe. Before starting Beam in October of 2022, Adam Eagle had spent five and a half years as a software engineer at the fintech company, building core APIs and infrastructure for Stripe billing, invoicing, commerce, and payments. Amy Saper, lead investor on the round, helped build and grow Stripe’s product marketing team before joining Accel as a partner in 2019.
Saper worked with Eagle as his product marketing counterpart w...
