PerformLine
👤 Alex Baydin (Ran verticals at affiliate network Epic Advertising; he'd seen brands get no view into how affiliates sold their name.)🌐 siteLinkedIn
It scans web, calls, email and social across a brand and its partners, flagging ads that break consumer-finance rules.
Will it work? · our read
Regulation sells it. First mover in a category it named, still here after 18 years. Its tailwind, though, is an aggressive CFPB — and in 2025 that agency was largely dismantled.
01How the money moves
A regulator holds the brand liable for its partners' ads
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PerformLine discovers every channel and flags violations
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Regulated firms pay an annual platform subscription
02The numbers
$3.2MEstimate2021 ARR, self-report
2021-05
the sentence on the page
PerformLine New York , New York , United States performline.com GRC Platforms Valuation $9.6M 2021 Revenue $3.2M Funding $0 Team 54 Founded 2007 Company Revenue Valuation and Funding Founder and CEO…
The $3.2M is a 2021 founder self-report to Latka; PerformLine has since taken growth funding (M33) and is larger, but no current revenue is independently verified. Latka
About $3.2M ARR self-reported to Latka in 2021; growth-funded and larger since, but no verified current number.
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PerformLine — About (founded 2007, seven channels, mission)Sramana Mitra — Baydin interview (Epic Advertising background, origin)Latka — PerformLine $3.2M ARR, 54 staff (2021 self-report)Crunchbase — PerformLine funding (First Round, WTI, M33 Growth)Banking Dive — CFPB 2025 mass layoffs / rollback
Revenue is a 2021 founder self-report to Latka ($3.2M ARR, 54 staff) — stale and unaudited, so marked EST; I did NOT use the unverified "$19M" or "$50-100M" third-party estimates online. Despite a Sramana Mitra "bootstrapped" headline, PerformLine is NOT bootstrapped: Crunchbase shows First Round Capital seed + Western Technology venture debt (about $6.4M) plus an undisclosed M33 Growth round. Founded 2007 per the company and Latka; Crunchbase lists 2008. The 7 channels and affiliate/subdomain auto-discovery come from PerformLine's own site. The CFPB-2025 rollback (April RIF attempt, November furlough plan) is well documented, but its dollar impact on PerformLine's revenue is [our read], not disclosed. We never score you.