Bits Technology is a developer of automation software aimed at simplifying and democratizing financial technology services. The company connects various data sources and orchestrates workflows to enhance efficiency in financial tech services. Its software facilitates the deployment of new products across multiple markets, allowing clients to rapidly create dynamic onboarding processes. This enables businesses to focus on achieving meaningful customer outcomes while streamlining their operations.
Headquartered in Boston, FiVerity, Inc. develops and markets AI- and machine learning software solutions that detect new and emerging forms of cyber fraud and deliver actionable, proactive threat intelligence. The company’s products meet the unique requirements of financial institutions, including banks, credit unions, and credit card providers. The company’s solutions help financial institutions strengthen, streamline and scale their consumer-facing business processes, such as application processing, credit verification, and customer onboarding. With its predictive and proactive approach, FiVerity’s solutions help customers to improve their internal processes to reduce losses from fraud and drive faster, and more profitable and sustainable growth.
Developer of financial software designed to manage expenses, rules, approvals, reimbursements and budgets. The company's software offers reservation management, expense management and multiple payment methods, enabling businesses to make payments without much trouble.
Sequence is developing a new breed of FinOps stack for B2B companies, as well as APIs and other tools to enable more responsive pricing, billing, and related services.
Developer of a fairness consideration platform designed for fair lending compliance. The company's platform automates the fair lending analysis, and decision-making systems, also optimizing the decision model to embed fairness by reducing algorithmic bias, enabling clients to increase both fairness and profits.
Fuell Technologies, S.L. is a Madrid-based company that specializes in issuing corporate credit cards and providing expense management software for businesses. Founded in 2019, Fuell's platform integrates a corporate card with expense management tools, allowing companies to manage spending in real-time and set budgets without the need for traditional expense reports. The service includes features such as automatic budget updates, credit increases as businesses grow, and cashbacks on various expenditures, including rideshare, fuel, dining, and recruitment services. This innovative approach aims to streamline financial management, offering businesses greater control over their expenses and enhancing operational efficiency.
Private Equity Round in 2022
Circle is a financial technology company that leverages blockchain technology to facilitate the sending, receiving, and investing of cryptocurrency assets globally. Founded in 2013 by Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville, Circle offers a user-friendly online platform that simplifies money transfers and includes services such as Circle Pay for peer-to-peer payments. In addition, the company provides Circle Invest, allowing users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, and Circle Trade, which operates a trading desk with a substantial liquidity pool for digital assets, averaging $2 billion in monthly trading volume. With significant backing from investors, including notable firms such as Goldman Sachs and Accel Partners, Circle has established a presence in major cities, including Boston, New York, San Francisco, Dublin, London, and Hong Kong. The company is dedicated to accelerating global crypto innovation and adoption through its various financial services.
Developer of a cloud cost optimization tool designed to reduce the complexity of the cloud bill. The company's financial operations tool makes the costs visible, uses data optimization, encourages collaboration and accountability, and offers new data to analyze and improve costs in real-time, enabling clients to maximize every dollar spent on the cloud and easily monitor, prioritize, and track cost optimizations.
Quaestor Technologies, Inc. develops automated financial tools. It offers Quaestor, an automated data platform that enables financial transparency between startups and investors, empowering founders to make better decisions in scaling their companies. The company’s Quaestor fosters a collaborative relationship between founders and investors by automatically collecting, standardizing, and synthesizing startup data enabling both parties to make metrics-driven decisions. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Developer of a fintech API platform designed to connect ERPs and accounting software with corporate bank accounts. The company's platform offers cloud-based tools such as identifying and access management, permission and approvals of customer requests as well as handles all the security, identity, and other banking operations, enabling banks and financial institutions to perform treasury-related operations efficiently.
mistho.io offers the first open payroll API for Europe, that enables consumers to easily access and share their salary and employment information with third parties such as banks, insurance companies, lenders and others at the click of a button. Our goal is to help businesses build the best consumer experiences in the fintech world that require income information. As a first step, we are now enabling businesses to easily integrate the Mistho app into their existing flow for income verification. Remember the last time you searched for a flat to rent, wanted to lease a car or applied for a loan? At some point during your search you were asked to share your last three months of payslips. You probably had to upload them to a platform or send them via e-mail to your agent. In some cases, you might even have needed to ask your HR department to help you out. Mistho helps exactly here - by offering a digital, directly embedded income verification tool that asks the end consumer to do no more than log in to their payroll portal.
Neo.tax is a tax preparation and filing service based in Mountain View, California, that specializes in assisting early-stage startups. The company offers a tax automation platform that employs machine learning algorithms to streamline the collection and organization of data from various sources, including emails, documents, project management tools, and financial systems. This technology generates comprehensive reports that detail all activities, expenses, and methodologies used to claim tax credits. By enhancing accuracy and simplifying the review process, Neo.tax aims to ensure that businesses are audit-ready, thereby facilitating a more efficient and reliable tax filing experience.
PollyEx, Inc. operates a loan trading platform specifically designed for mortgage capital markets. The platform connects buyers and sellers of mortgage loans, facilitating efficient loan sale transactions for mortgage lenders. By leveraging cloud-based technology and API integration, PollyEx enhances liquidity and automates various functions within the capital markets. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company aims to improve loan sale execution and streamline the trading process in the mortgage industry.
DebtStream is a digital platform that specializes in debt collection for businesses dealing with clients in arrears. The platform provides comprehensive services for debt recovery, allowing users to establish automated collection plans and conduct income and expenditure assessments. It supports various payment methods, including card payments, and offers real-time alerts via email and SMS. Additionally, DebtStream enhances customer engagement through insightful analytics and facilitates file sharing, helping clients improve their operational efficiency and financial outcomes.
hi.health offers people with private health insurance convenient and safe access to health care billing via app or web. Users can easily submit their invoices digitally and hi.health takes care of the further processing, billing and customer service providing a seamless user experience. With the integrated “library” users receive a transparent overview of relevant digital health products and services, that are (partially) covered by their insurance. hi.health operates at the intersection of digital health, fintech and insurtech. While each of these rapidly growing markets are already exciting in themselves, their combination in one product is unique. The company was founded by Sebastian Gruber and Fredrik Debong in July 2019. Since hi.health launched in Germany at the end of 2019 several thousand users already use the independent billing app.
Conduit provides one API for connecting to DeFi. We enable companies to launch crypto-backed earnings products within their existing financial service platforms in days, not months. With Conduit, financial growth can become accessible to everyone.
Signal Intent is building the next generation of financial calculators. Whether you're a bank, credit union, insurance, or mortgage company, now you can easily launch calculators your customers will love - no coding required. How it works is simple. We offer a library of interactive calculator templates that you can easily embed on your website in just a few clicks. Plus, we’re the only calculator company to come equipped with a platform, so you can customize each calculator to match your brand, convert more customers with custom calls-to-action, and measure performance with our real-time analytics.
Banxware is a Berlin-based software provider specializing in embedded financial technologies that enable companies to offer financial services to their customers. Founded in 2020 by Miriam Wohlfarth, Jens Röhrborn, and Fabian Heiß, Banxware's lending-as-a-service platform allows digital platforms, marketplaces, and payment service providers to offer loans to their merchants using transaction data. The company's first product is an instant business lending solution, which streamlines the onboarding, verification, credit decision, and payout processes, completing them in under 15 minutes. Banxware's platform incorporates essential features such as KYC and AML checks, credit scoring, risk management, loan origination, and collection, facilitating a comprehensive approach to financial services. By leveraging Banxware’s white-label software, businesses can enhance their offerings while benefiting from the expertise of its founders.
Pontoro operates a digital asset securitization and liquidity platform aimed at addressing the significant shortfall in infrastructure debt financing, estimated at $20 trillion. By leveraging its blockchain-based technology, Pontoro facilitates the flow of infrastructure loans from major bank originators to institutional investors, enhancing access to these typically private market assets. The company has developed an initial infrastructure loan pipeline valued at $500 million through relationships with large banks. In addition to expanding its offerings, Pontoro is in discussions with several prominent financial institutions to explore distribution opportunities for its digital assets, targeting registered investment advisors, family offices, and ultra-high net worth investors. With a team experienced in underwriting and managing over $100 billion in large-scale infrastructure projects worldwide, Pontoro aims to foster broader investor participation and improve liquidity and price transparency in this sector.
Hummingbird is a platform for managing anti-money laundering (AML) operations. Compliance professionals use Hummingbird to collect case information, conduct investigations, and report on unusual or suspicious behaviors. The platform dramatically reduces paperwork and improves efficiency, enabling AML investigators to refocus on fighting financial crime. Hummingbird’s founding team brings together product and regulatory experience from organizations like Square, IDEO, the Department of the Treasury, and the OCC. Hummingbird is using data and design to modernize regulatory compliance in finance.
Developer of a fairness consideration platform designed for fair lending compliance. The company's platform automates the fair lending analysis, and decision-making systems, also optimizing the decision model to embed fairness by reducing algorithmic bias, enabling clients to increase both fairness and profits.
Nimbla is a London-based fintech company that specializes in providing B2B invoice insurance to small and medium-sized businesses in the United Kingdom. The company utilizes advanced technology to offer a digital insurance platform that allows clients to instantly assess the credit ratings of their invoices and insure them individually. This service is designed to protect businesses from the risks associated with late payments and customer insolvency. In addition to single invoice insurance, Nimbla's platform provides predictive cash flow analysis, risk assessment tools, and trade credit protection, enabling businesses to effectively manage their credit exposure and enhance their client prospecting efforts. Through these services, Nimbla aims to support the financial stability and growth of its clients by mitigating the risks of default and improving cash flow management.
Maxwell Financial Labs, Inc. is a technology company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2015. It specializes in developing a digital platform that facilitates collaboration among home buyers, real estate agents, and lenders within the residential mortgage market. By connecting numerous lenders through an intuitive and seamless interface, Maxwell aims to streamline the mortgage process, allowing users to focus on finding a home rather than dealing with paperwork. The platform is utilized by hundreds of lenders across the United States, enabling them to originate substantial mortgage loans each month with cycle times significantly faster than the national average.
Developer of financial market services platform intended to transfer funds to the seller and securities to the buyer. The company's platform offers a clearing and custody application programming interface for broker-dealers, registered investment advisors, banks, and fintech startups, enabling clients to meet the demands of today's traders and investors.
AnChain.ai Inc. specializes in blockchain data analytics and cryptocurrency transaction monitoring, providing solutions for public and private blockchain networks. Its offerings include Blockchain Ecosystem Intelligence, which connects wallet addresses and transactions to real-world entities, ensuring compliance with KYC and AML regulations while quantifying risk. The Transaction Analytics Platform delivers insights for day-to-day operations, featuring automated alerts, anomaly detection, and user profiling. Additionally, the company offers a Smart Contract Auditing Sandbox to assess the security of Solidity-based contracts and a Crypto Ransom Response service to track adversaries and mitigate financial losses from theft. AnChain.ai caters to a diverse clientele, including blockchain exchanges, custodians, financial institutions, and enterprises involved in cybersecurity and innovation. Founded in 2018, the company is headquartered in Milpitas, California, and is recognized by leading blockchain firms and industry committees for its contributions to security and trust in the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
Ocrolus Inc. is a New York-based fintech company founded in 2014 that specializes in automating manual data processes through its intelligent automation platform. The company's solution captures data from various sources, including e-statements, scanned documents, and cellphone images, achieving over 99% accuracy. By integrating artificial intelligence and crowdsourcing, Ocrolus enables businesses to streamline financial reviews, allowing them to focus on more strategic tasks by reducing the need for manual intervention. Its services are applicable in areas such as loan underwriting, account openings, robotic process automation, auditing, healthcare, and due diligence. The company primarily serves clients within the financial sector, helping them enhance efficiency and mitigate fraud through algorithmic checks and expert reviews.
Synctera Inc. is a company that specializes in providing digital banking solutions aimed at facilitating partnerships between traditional banks and fintech startups. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Synctera offers a platform that helps banks identify their specific needs and connects them with suitable fintech firms. The company manages the relationship through a backend platform that addresses regulatory compliance and supports the onboarding process. In addition to its partnership solutions, Synctera enhances security through features such as personally identifiable information (PII) encryption, endpoint protection, secure login, authentication, and role-based access.
Greenlight Financial Technology, Inc. is a financial services company that provides debit card solutions specifically designed for children, enabling parents to cultivate financial literacy in their kids. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Greenlight offers a mobile application that allows parents to manage their children's spending by selecting specific stores where the Greenlight debit card can be used. The platform features patent-pending technology that empowers parents to monitor spending habits, freeze cards if lost, receive instant alerts, and automate allowances. This approach not only promotes responsible spending but also facilitates teachable moments around earning, saving, and giving.
BITE’s technology enabled investment platform allows high net worth investors, independent financial advisors, wealth managers, family offices and other investment platforms to invest much smaller amounts than typical minimum buy ins, into top performing alternative investments, through aggregating commitments together, via feeder funds; in addition it focuses on creating a secondary market, to provide liquidity to investors wishing to exit their stake earlier than the life time of the investment.
Maxwell Financial Labs, Inc. is a technology company based in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2015. It specializes in developing a digital platform that facilitates collaboration among home buyers, real estate agents, and lenders within the residential mortgage market. By connecting numerous lenders through an intuitive and seamless interface, Maxwell aims to streamline the mortgage process, allowing users to focus on finding a home rather than dealing with paperwork. The platform is utilized by hundreds of lenders across the United States, enabling them to originate substantial mortgage loans each month with cycle times significantly faster than the national average.
Quilo, developed by Qoosh Technology, is a digital lending platform designed to support community banks and credit unions in offering instant installment loans, branded as "Quilos," to their account holders. This platform facilitates immediate access to funds without hidden fees, allowing financial institutions to simplify the lending process. By enabling the fractional placement of funds across multiple loans, Quilo provides instant financing at the point of sale or service. This empowers community financial institutions to enhance their product offerings and extend liquidity while maintaining control over their lending operations.
Teampay is a developer of a distributed spend management platform that aims to transform the corporate card experience for modern businesses. The platform allows organizations to manage employee spending through a user-friendly workflow that connects spenders with finance teams. By enabling real-time requests, approvals, and tracking of expenditures, Teampay addresses common challenges such as policy misalignment, lack of transparency, and unpredictable spending. Its solutions help companies streamline their purchasing processes, ensuring that resources are focused on growth rather than administrative overhead. Teampay's approach integrates critical data into existing systems, promoting safe and intelligent payment practices.
Greenlight Financial Technology, Inc. is a financial services company that provides debit card solutions specifically designed for children, enabling parents to cultivate financial literacy in their kids. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Greenlight offers a mobile application that allows parents to manage their children's spending by selecting specific stores where the Greenlight debit card can be used. The platform features patent-pending technology that empowers parents to monitor spending habits, freeze cards if lost, receive instant alerts, and automate allowances. This approach not only promotes responsible spending but also facilitates teachable moments around earning, saving, and giving.
DailyPay is a financial wellness platform that enables employees to access their earned wages on demand, allowing them to control when they get paid. Founded in 2015 by Jason Lee and Robert Law, the company partners with organizations across various sectors to enhance employee engagement, recruitment, and retention. DailyPay's digital wallet system facilitates the transfer of funds directly to bank accounts, providing users with the flexibility to manage their finances more effectively. By offering this service, DailyPay not only supports individual financial security but also helps partner companies improve their overall profitability.
Figure Technologies, Inc. is a fintech company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in providing consumer financial solutions primarily focused on home equity products. Incorporated in 2018, the company offers services such as home equity lines of credit, home improvement loans, and home buy-lease back options, facilitating access to capital for customers in as little as five days. Figure leverages blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics to enhance its offerings, enabling customers to effectively manage their financial needs, including debt consolidation and retirement planning. Additionally, Figure has developed Provenance, a blockchain platform designed for businesses to manage digital assets and execute financial transactions efficiently.
CRE Simple, Inc. is a financial services company that focuses on providing an innovative cloud-based lending platform designed to enhance access to capital for commercial real estate transactions. Established in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company operates its OneSource platform, which serves as a collaboration and workflow solution that connects various participants in the commercial real estate finance ecosystem. By leveraging data services and artificial intelligence, CRE Simple aims to streamline the borrowing process, offering improved speed, transparency, and certainty. Its platform facilitates a more efficient and automated experience, addressing the complexities and potential errors associated with traditional lending methods. Through deep integration with brokerage, tenant, and capital partners, CRE Simple is positioned to transform the capital access landscape in the commercial real estate sector.
Numbrs is a customer-centric financial services company. It enables its customers to manage their existing bank accounts and personal finances and to buy any financial product from every provider at the best possible price. Numbrs is not a bank and will not become a bank. The company is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland and employs over 100 people.
Onfido Limited is a provider of identity verification solutions that utilizes artificial intelligence to authenticate users' identities through the analysis of government-issued IDs and facial biometrics. Established in 2010 and headquartered in London, the company has expanded its presence globally with offices in several major cities, including San Francisco and New Delhi. Onfido's technology is designed to streamline the identity verification process across various sectors, including financial services, e-commerce, and transportation, helping clients onboard users while minimizing risk. The platform enables businesses to verify identities securely and efficiently, supporting applications in areas such as KYC, fraud detection, and user onboarding. With a client base of over 1,500 organizations, Onfido is positioned to transform how identity verification is approached, facilitating seamless access to services ranging from banking to travel.
Figure Technologies, Inc. is a fintech company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in providing consumer financial solutions primarily focused on home equity products. Incorporated in 2018, the company offers services such as home equity lines of credit, home improvement loans, and home buy-lease back options, facilitating access to capital for customers in as little as five days. Figure leverages blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics to enhance its offerings, enabling customers to effectively manage their financial needs, including debt consolidation and retirement planning. Additionally, Figure has developed Provenance, a blockchain platform designed for businesses to manage digital assets and execute financial transactions efficiently.
CoinSuper Fintech (HK) Co., Ltd., doing business as Coinsuper, provides digital asset trading and customized services for professionals and individuals. It offers financial advisory, compliance, wealth management, and cryptocurrency and financial technology. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Central, Hong Kong.
Tradeshift Inc. is a cloud-based platform that connects buyers and suppliers, streamlining digital trade transactions and enhancing supply chain efficiency. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Tradeshift offers a suite of solutions including Tradeshift Buy, an eProcurement tool; Tradeshift Pay, an accounts payable automation platform; and Tradeshift Risk, which focuses on risk data collection and analysis. The company also provides Tradeshift Engage, a platform for supplier collaboration, and Tradeshift Go, which offers visibility into employee spending. Additionally, Tradeshift Frontiers serves as an innovation lab, exploring emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and distributed ledgers to transform B2B commerce and global supply chains. With a commitment to eliminating paper and manual processes, Tradeshift enables clients to optimize procure-to-pay processes securely while capitalizing on early payment discounts and minimizing risks.
SoFi is a finance company headquartered in San Francisco, California, that provides a diverse range of lending and wealth management services. Established in 2011, it primarily serves early-stage professionals by offering various financial products, including personal loans, mortgage refinancing, and MBA loans. Additionally, SoFi offers services such as estate planning, credit cards, and small business financing. The company's aim is to help individuals achieve financial independence and reach their goals, whether that involves homeownership, retirement savings, or managing student debt. By creating modern financial solutions, SoFi seeks to assist its customers in borrowing, saving, spending, investing, and protecting their money effectively.
Figure Technologies, Inc. is a fintech company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in providing consumer financial solutions primarily focused on home equity products. Incorporated in 2018, the company offers services such as home equity lines of credit, home improvement loans, and home buy-lease back options, facilitating access to capital for customers in as little as five days. Figure leverages blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics to enhance its offerings, enabling customers to effectively manage their financial needs, including debt consolidation and retirement planning. Additionally, Figure has developed Provenance, a blockchain platform designed for businesses to manage digital assets and execute financial transactions efficiently.
Tradeshift Inc. is a cloud-based platform that connects buyers and suppliers, streamlining digital trade transactions and enhancing supply chain efficiency. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Tradeshift offers a suite of solutions including Tradeshift Buy, an eProcurement tool; Tradeshift Pay, an accounts payable automation platform; and Tradeshift Risk, which focuses on risk data collection and analysis. The company also provides Tradeshift Engage, a platform for supplier collaboration, and Tradeshift Go, which offers visibility into employee spending. Additionally, Tradeshift Frontiers serves as an innovation lab, exploring emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and distributed ledgers to transform B2B commerce and global supply chains. With a commitment to eliminating paper and manual processes, Tradeshift enables clients to optimize procure-to-pay processes securely while capitalizing on early payment discounts and minimizing risks.