Alix Maurin

Alix Maurin
Occupation	Entrepreneur, startup executive
Known for	Co-founder of RentFlow
Education	ESSEC Business School (Master's in Management)

Alix Maurin is a French entrepreneur and the co-founder, president, and chief operating officer (COO) of RentFlow, a financial technology company that provides a "buy now, pay later" platform for commercial rent. RentFlow was part of the Y Combinator Summer 2024 batch and is based in San Francisco.

Career

Before founding RentFlow, Maurin worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company for approximately three years, where she specialized in fintech strategy and business banking. Earlier in her career, she held positions at Uber in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) division and at Amazon. She holds a Master's in Management from ESSEC Business School.

Maurin co-founded RentFlow alongside Joseph Thalinjan. The company addresses a widespread problem in the United States commercial real estate market: approximately 50 percent of small and medium-sized businesses fall behind on their rent payments at some point. RentFlow positions itself as an intermediary between commercial landlords and tenants, paying landlords the full rent amount on time each month while allowing tenants to split their rent into smaller, flexible installments that are synchronized with their actual revenue and cash flow.

The platform serves both sides of the commercial lease relationship. For landlords and property managers, RentFlow eliminates the burden of collecting late rent and reduces the risk of missed payments. For business tenants, the service converts a fixed monthly expense into variable payments that better match their income patterns. The company describes the underlying problem as a fundamental mismatch: business rent is fixed, but business cash flow is not, and this gap drives unnecessary cash-flow stress and business closures.

RentFlow uses real-time underwriting based on transaction-level data to assess tenant creditworthiness and structure payment plans. The company operates in the fintech, proptech, software-as-a-service, and payments sectors. According to the company, RentFlow targets what it estimates to be a $15 billion-plus rent-splitting market in the United States, with plans to expand into broader cash-flow intelligence products for business owners and the platforms that serve them.

Prior to RentFlow, Maurin was also involved in co-founding Mindely.ai, an artificial intelligence tool designed to conduct case study interviews, which drew on her consulting background.