Private Equity Round in 2023
PhonePe is a mobile payments app that allows users to transfer money instantly to anyone, by using just their mobile number. The company aims to make digital payments so easy, safe, and universally accepted that people never feel the need to carry cash or cards again. Its online payment system is based on Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and a digital wallet. PhonePe strives to make commerce a seamless experience for both customers and businesses.
Merkle Manufactory is a software company that develops a decentralized social network to move identity between applications. The company builds a credibly neutral protocol where users have direct relationships with their audiences and developers have the freedom to create new clients.
Delphia believes data is the key to capital formation and economic empowerment. We build products that incentivize the contribution of proprietary data in order to generate an edge in financial markets. We believe that actively managing people’s data can unlock new forms of wealth creation for individual and institutional investors alike.
MachineFi Lab operates as a designer for IoT and blockchain technologies.
Coins.ph is a Blockchain-backed platform that provides consumers with direct access to banking and digital payment services, local and international remittances, bill payments, game credits, and online shopping. It makes money transfer frictionless and accessible through the use of mobile devices and Blockchain technology. Founded in 2014, Coins.ph's mobile wallet empowers customers and small businesses by giving them direct access to financial services.
Lightspark is created to explore, build and extend the capabilities and utility of Bitcoin.
Alan provides online digital insurance services focusing on health and wellness. The company offers health insurance services, providing solutions tailored to the needs of different types of businesses. It provides simple and seamless insurance coverage and easy claim handling. It gives access to medical professionals for users to easily and conveniently get medical advice and manage claims and reimbursements.
Point is a home equity platform that helps homeowners access equity financing in exchange for a fractional share of the future value of their homes. With a Home Equity Investment, homeowners can eliminate debt, get through periods of financial hardship, and diversify their wealth. For investors, Point provides access to a previously untapped asset class in the residential real estate space.
Pinhome is a property transaction and real estate fintech platform making property and home financing more accessible. Pinhome eliminates the challenges in property transactions by building a technology platform to organize property data and information, digitize property transactions, and the home financing process.
Stark Bank is a smart bank account that aids a technological advancement of a company.
Tomo is a fintech startup focused on digitizing residential mortgages and improving the home-buying process through its subsidiaries, Tomo Mortgage and Tomo Real Estate. Tomo Real Estate operates as a modern real estate portal, utilizing AI, visual insights, and data to enhance the home-buying experience.
Gauntlet’s applied research and optimization teams model market risk, and economic incentives, and drive sustainable growth for crypto’s top protocols, chains, and on-chain treasuries. It simulates risk parameters and maximizes returns. Gauntlet maximizes protocol growth efficiency and improves financial growth for businesses.
Helium is an internet-of-things developer platform for building the network and transferring IoT device data. The platform builds the peer-to-peer wireless network to simplify connecting anything to the internet by rewarding anyone to become a network operator. It provides wireless coverage for low-power Internet of Things (IoT) devices and earns a new cryptocurrency, Helium, from your living room. Helium tokens by verifying network transactions, adding new blocks to the blockchain, and performing other tasks. The Proof-of-Coverage is a unique work algorithm that uses radio waves to validate that hotspots are providing legitimate wireless coverage.
Fenbeitong is the enterprise consumption platform for full process control. Through intelligent control rules and reminding measures, Debeitong helps enterprises to save a lot of money during travel, car use, procurement and other public consumption. Through the credit monthly payment and unified invoice consumption mode, Debeitong helps employees to spare money. , free of charge, no reimbursement, greatly improve the efficiency of business operations.
Vivid is a leading European financial platform for businesses that seamlessly integrates the management of personal and business finances. Focused on SMEs, Vivid delivers cost-effective, scalable financial solutions with best-in-class pricing, market-leading interest rates on savings and advanced business tools. Founded in 2019 in Berlin by Alexander Emeshevand Artem Iamanov, Vivid has quickly grown into one of Germany’s top financial platforms for SMEs and private accounts. Backed by Greenoaks Capital and DST Global, the company is expanding across Europe setting new standards in how businesses bank.
Sote: A data and analytics company enabling banks and FI's in Africa to lend to corporates and SME's based on proprietary trade data (Moody's for Africa). At Sote, we are a data-first company empowering the growth of African businesses. Our mission is to bridge the $150 billion trade finance gap within the $400B industry, hampered by a lack of credible trade data. We eliminate traditional reliance on real-estate collateral by offering reliable credit, risk management, underwriting and business intelligence. By leveraging advanced technology, Sote operates seamlessly across three distinct domains: Trade Finance, Data, and Logistics. Welcome to a new era of African trade, powered data. Sote, Swahili for 'all of us'
Redefine offers an advanced end-to-end risk assessment and mitigation solution for DeFi investors. It includes an automated due diligence service, real-time portfolio risk monitoring, and active risk mitigation.
Checkout.com is a fintech company that specializes in providing online payment solutions for businesses globally. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company operates a comprehensive e-commerce payment platform that facilitates mobile and online transactions. Its services include payment gateway solutions, international acquiring, and processing for various payment methods, such as credit and debit cards, online banking, and eWallets like PayPal and Apple Pay. The platform is designed to enhance security and streamline the payment process by eliminating intermediaries, offering fraud management tools, analytics, and customizable risk settings. With offices across multiple countries, including the United Kingdom, France, and Australia, Checkout.com aims to empower businesses to manage digital payments effectively while optimizing performance and minimizing risks.
Gorila is a Fintech that helps investors and advisors control of their portfolio.
Slingshot is a web3 company developing and using decentralized technologies to help retail users access and interact with digital assets in a secure, trustless and self-sovereign way. Available on Web, Android and iOS, Slingshot combines the performance and ease of centralized platforms, with the openness, transparency and security of decentralized finance. Users can buy, sell, swap or bridge over 50k cryptocurrencies at the best prices Slingshot aggregates across decentralized exchanges. Slingshot is feature packed with a choice of wallets, live prices and charts, portfolio tracking, live chat, collectibles, rewards, top-notch support and much more. Slingshot was founded in 2020 and is a remore-first company headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Settle" is a cash-flow management platform designed to help businesses and individuals manage their financial transactions, track expenses, and optimize cash flow. It aims to provide users with tools and insights to better understand their financial situation and make informed decisions about their money. The company was founded by Alek Koenig in November 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Upgrade is a neobank that offers credit to mainstream consumers through cards and personal loans, together with free credit monitoring and education tools that help consumers understand and manage their finances. Upgrade Card provides an innovative credit card that brings the low cost and responsible credit of installment lending to millions of retail locations in the U.S., while Upgrade Account is a mobile banking product offered to mainstream consumers.
Digital Currency Group builds and supports bitcoin and blockchain companies by leveraging insights, network, and access to capital. Based in Stamford, Connecticut, DCG has been an active seed investor in the digital currency industry with 150+ investments in over 30 countries. In addition, DCG owns and operates CoinDesk, the top media and events platform in the blockchain space, Genesis Trading, the industry's leading bitcoin brokerage firm, and Grayscale Investments, the largest digital currency asset management firm.
Chipper Cash is a financial services company that features a software application platform that enables free instant cross-border mobile money transfers in Africa as easy as sending a text message. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Forma is simple, easy to use and gives employees direct access to all their available benefits options through an intuitive interface. Employees spend benefits stipend through a curated collection of vendors that offer preferred pricing without the hassle of reimbursements, which saves time and money.
Justos is disrupting the insurance market in Latin America.
Groww is an investment platform that offers a new way of investing money with stockbroking and direct mutual funds. The platform provides insights about mutual funds, systematic investment planning, equity-linked savings, and everything from the personal finance world, which helps new investors make investing simple by maintaining a simplified user interface to make investing easy, accessible, transparent, and paperless, enabling users to invest in mutual funds without any hassles. Customers can also invest in gold and US stocks through the Groww platform. The company is also a part of Y Combinator’s winter 2018 batch. Founded in 2017 by Lalit Keshre, Harsh Jain, Neeraj Singh, and Ishan Bansal, the company was launched in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
FTX Exchange is a cryptocurrency exchange company that develops a platform for professional trading firms. They strive to build a platform suitable for professional trading firms and intuitive enough for first-time users. FTX supports quarterly and perpetual futures for all cryptocurrencies, leveraged tokens, and OTC. FTX was incubated by Alameda Research, a top cryptocurrency liquidity provider. Because of this, FTX has had industry order books from day one.
Futureswap is a decentralized perpetuals exchange
Bank Jago is a listed technology-based bank and is a mobile on-demand services and payments platform. Jago integrated a cashless payment method on the through the Gojek app. Jago was established on December 14, 1992 by Linawati Arto Hardy in Bandung, Jawa Barat.
Ajaib is a financial super app that allows Indonesians to buy and sell stocks, ETFs, and mutual funds. The company is committed to opening the door to access investment instruments that are safe, trusted, and affordable. Its stock and mutual fund services can be accessed online, by all walks of life. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Parafin is a financial infrastructure company that provides platforms with embedded financial products for their small businesses by abstracting the complexity of capital markets, underwriting, servicing, compliance, and customer support. Small businesses can run and grow themselves despite uncertain economic conditions by powering the financial services of marketplaces and payment processors. In less than three years, Parafin has launched on Amazon, Walmart, DoorDash, TikTok, and more platforms to serve hundreds of thousands of businesses and extended over $8 billion in offers.
axio is an online platform that provides working capital finance to SMEs.
KAVAK is an online platform that offers insight into buying and selling used cars. It specializes in the fields of e-commerce, automotive, and retail. KAVAK e-commerce for the purchase and sale of pre-owned cars in Latin America. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Mexico City, Distrito.
Vouch provides business insurance solutions designed for high-growth companies through a tech-enabled platform. The company offers access to multiple insurance carriers and instant quoting capabilities through its MGA brand, Corix. Its services are structured to help startups and technology-driven businesses manage risk as they scale. Vouch continues to expand its offerings by integrating technology and industry expertise to address emerging risks.
Wave Mobile Money provides an app-based financial solution to save, transfer, and borrow money. Wave Mobile Money is on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent. On a continent where less than 10% of the population has a bank account, Wave is building the first modern financial network — no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere! It is building life-changing financial infrastructure. When mobile money succeeded in Kenya, it lifted about a million people out of poverty. And yet, over 10 years later, most Africans still lack access to affordable ways to save, transfer or borrow the money they need to build businesses or provide for their families. Wave is solving this problem by using technology to build a radically inclusive and extremely affordable financial network.
Offchain Labs develops a solution for scaling Ethereum smart contracts.
Cora is a digital bank for self-employed and small & medium enterprises. The company is currently operating in closed beta and plans to launch its first product, a free SME-only mobile account. Cora will later release a portfolio of payments, credit-related products, and financial management tools that are currently being developed. They have developed a modern platform that offers a cheaper and simpler service, freeing entrepreneurs from the bureaucracy and repetitive work that usually involves day-to-day finance. Cora was founded by Igor Senra Magalhães and Leonardo Soares Barbosa Mendes and is headquartered in São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Balance is a digital payments platform designed to make the B2B online purchasing experience delightful for buyers and vendors alike. The company was founded in 2019 by Bar Geron and Yoni Shuster and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Ualá is a financial technology company providing a comprehensive financial ecosystem that allows users to manage payments, request loans, and invest in various financial products. With services including a prepaid Mastercard, savings accounts, and investment options, Ualá aims to enhance financial inclusion.
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Helium is an internet-of-things developer platform for building the network and transferring IoT device data. The platform builds the peer-to-peer wireless network to simplify connecting anything to the internet by rewarding anyone to become a network operator. It provides wireless coverage for low-power Internet of Things (IoT) devices and earns a new cryptocurrency, Helium, from your living room. Helium tokens by verifying network transactions, adding new blocks to the blockchain, and performing other tasks. The Proof-of-Coverage is a unique work algorithm that uses radio waves to validate that hotspots are providing legitimate wireless coverage.
BharatPe is an Indian fintech company that primarily focuses on providing financial services to small and medium-sized merchants. It facilitates digital payments through the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and Point of Sale (POS) devices. Additionally, BharatPe offers various services such as business loans and other financial products to empower merchants in managing their finances.
Hippo Insurance provides home insurance brokerage services, focusing on modernizing coverage for homeowners. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in Austin and Dallas, the company utilizes technology to streamline the insurance process. Hippo aims to simplify and enhance home insurance by offering intuitive and proactive coverage that actively addresses the needs of clients. By adopting a tech-driven approach, Hippo seeks to transform how individuals safeguard their homes, allowing them to feel secure and carefree. The company emphasizes a commitment to delivering smarter, more efficient insurance solutions tailored to contemporary homeowners.
FTX Exchange is a cryptocurrency exchange company that develops a platform for professional trading firms. They strive to build a platform suitable for professional trading firms and intuitive enough for first-time users. FTX supports quarterly and perpetual futures for all cryptocurrencies, leveraged tokens, and OTC. FTX was incubated by Alameda Research, a top cryptocurrency liquidity provider. Because of this, FTX has had industry order books from day one.
Tomo is a fintech startup focused on digitizing residential mortgages and improving the home-buying process through its subsidiaries, Tomo Mortgage and Tomo Real Estate. Tomo Real Estate operates as a modern real estate portal, utilizing AI, visual insights, and data to enhance the home-buying experience.
Chipper Cash is a financial services company that features a software application platform that enables free instant cross-border mobile money transfers in Africa as easy as sending a text message. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
QuintoAndar is a platform that simplifies the rental of residential real estate for landlords and renters. With QuintoAndar, customers can work with a top-notch team that uses the best practices and best tools, be part of a high-impact project that will affect many people's lives, have autonomy to make decisions with no endless meetings, and work in an informal environment and horizontal hierarchy. Founded in February 2013 by Gabriel Braga and Andre Penha, it is headquartered in São Paulo in Brazil.
Onze is a fintech company that develops pension and financial health solutions for employees. Onze provides financial health solutions with wealth accumulation to employees, through a different and modern pension plan. Onze encourages people to develop discipline on payroll contributions, encouraging long-term investment through tax breaks, and enabling businesses to effectively motivate employees.
Figure provides consumer financial solutions intended for home improvement, debt consolidation, and retirement planning. Its financial services include provide home equity release services such as home equity lines of credit, home improvement loans, and home buy-lease back offerings for retirement leveraging through blockchain, artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics, enabling customers to access capital in as few as five days.
Vise automates investment management for financial advisors using artificial intelligence. Vise has built a full-stack platform spanning the entire lifecycle of the advisor-client relationship, including designing personalized portfolios for clients, managing portfolios, and providing on-going intelligence. By doing so, Vise helps financial advisors focus on their most valuable resource -- their client relationships. Vise was founded in 2016 by Samir Vasavada and Runik Mehrotra in New York, New York.
Vivid is a leading European financial platform for businesses that seamlessly integrates the management of personal and business finances. Focused on SMEs, Vivid delivers cost-effective, scalable financial solutions with best-in-class pricing, market-leading interest rates on savings and advanced business tools. Founded in 2019 in Berlin by Alexander Emeshevand Artem Iamanov, Vivid has quickly grown into one of Germany’s top financial platforms for SMEs and private accounts. Backed by Greenoaks Capital and DST Global, the company is expanding across Europe setting new standards in how businesses bank.
We are an investment brokerage and wealth management firm that provides access to the best investments in the market. We are the pioneering firm to implement in Brazil the goal-based investment model, utilized by the ultra-high-net-worth individuals overseas. We provide a comprehensive experience tailored to the specific life stage of each investor. Our unique proposition lies in our complete alignment with your objectives, as we operate under a model that safeguards clients against a prevalent market concern: conflicts of interest.
Razorpay is a platform that enables businesses to accept, process, and disburse payments with its product suite. It gives access to all payment modes including credit card, debit card, net banking, UPI and popular wallets including JioMoney, Mobikwik, Airtel Money, FreeCharge, Ola Money, and PayZapp. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.
Alan provides online digital insurance services focusing on health and wellness. The company offers health insurance services, providing solutions tailored to the needs of different types of businesses. It provides simple and seamless insurance coverage and easy claim handling. It gives access to medical professionals for users to easily and conveniently get medical advice and manage claims and reimbursements.
Plaid is the technology platform providing the tools and access needed for the development of a fully modern, and digitally-enabled financial system. Plaid makes it easier and safer for developers from the smallest startups to the largest financial institutions to build innovative financial services and applications. Plaid offers beautiful consumer experiences, developer-friendly infrastructure, and intelligence tools that give everyone the ability to build the future of financial services. Plaid was launched by William Hockey and Zach Perret in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Groww is an investment platform that offers a new way of investing money with stockbroking and direct mutual funds. The platform provides insights about mutual funds, systematic investment planning, equity-linked savings, and everything from the personal finance world, which helps new investors make investing simple by maintaining a simplified user interface to make investing easy, accessible, transparent, and paperless, enabling users to invest in mutual funds without any hassles. Customers can also invest in gold and US stocks through the Groww platform. The company is also a part of Y Combinator’s winter 2018 batch. Founded in 2017 by Lalit Keshre, Harsh Jain, Neeraj Singh, and Ishan Bansal, the company was launched in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
KAVAK is an online platform that offers insight into buying and selling used cars. It specializes in the fields of e-commerce, automotive, and retail. KAVAK e-commerce for the purchase and sale of pre-owned cars in Latin America. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Mexico City, Distrito.
Cora is a digital bank for self-employed and small & medium enterprises. The company is currently operating in closed beta and plans to launch its first product, a free SME-only mobile account. Cora will later release a portfolio of payments, credit-related products, and financial management tools that are currently being developed. They have developed a modern platform that offers a cheaper and simpler service, freeing entrepreneurs from the bureaucracy and repetitive work that usually involves day-to-day finance. Cora was founded by Igor Senra Magalhães and Leonardo Soares Barbosa Mendes and is headquartered in São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Ajaib is a financial super app that allows Indonesians to buy and sell stocks, ETFs, and mutual funds. The company is committed to opening the door to access investment instruments that are safe, trusted, and affordable. Its stock and mutual fund services can be accessed online, by all walks of life. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Chainalysis designs and develops anti-money laundering software for Bitcoin businesses. Its products include REACTOR, an interactive investigation tool that identifies offenders, visualizes data, and shares results with people and organizations, and API, a transaction-based risk scoring solution that contains the source and destination of funds to measure risk. Chainalysis also offers activity monitoring reports and diligence tools, which allow analysts to estimate criminal revenues and emerging threats. It offers activity monitoring reports, due diligence tools, and cyber threats from the deep web for financial institutions, real-time application programming interface (API), web-based investigation software for due diligence, and verification of customers for bitcoin business, and web-based investigation tools to identify cyber-criminals, identification of bitcoin extortion payments made by victims to criminals, and attribution for cyber threat intelligence industries.
Fireblocks is a platform that protects digital assets in transit, focusing on protecting the transmission of customers' digital assets between exchanges, counter brokers, hot wallets, and cold stores. Fireblocks enables banks, fintech, exchanges, liquidity providers, OTCs, and hedge funds to securely manage digital assets across a wide range of products and services. The technology consists of the Fireblocks Network and MPC-based Wallet Infrastructure.
Coalition is an active insurance company that combines comprehensive insurance and proactive cybersecurity tools to help businesses manage and mitigate cyber risk. Backed by leading global insurers Allianz, Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, Arch Insurance North America, Lloyd’s of London, and Ascot Group, Coalition offers its insurance products in the US and Canada and its security products to organizations globally. Coalition’s Active Risk Platform provides automated security alerts, threat intelligence, expert guidance, and cybersecurity tools to help businesses remain resilient in the face of cyber attacks. Headquartered in San Francisco, Coalition is a distributed company with a global workforce that collaborates both digitally and in-office hubs across the globe.
Fenbeitong is the enterprise consumption platform for full process control. Through intelligent control rules and reminding measures, Debeitong helps enterprises to save a lot of money during travel, car use, procurement and other public consumption. Through the credit monthly payment and unified invoice consumption mode, Debeitong helps employees to spare money. , free of charge, no reimbursement, greatly improve the efficiency of business operations.
BharatPe is an Indian fintech company that primarily focuses on providing financial services to small and medium-sized merchants. It facilitates digital payments through the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and Point of Sale (POS) devices. Additionally, BharatPe offers various services such as business loans and other financial products to empower merchants in managing their finances.
Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission. The startup offers equity, cryptocurrency, and options trading, as well as cash management accounts. It also provides a stock brokerage platform that democratizes access to the financial markets and aims to make people comfortable storing money and trading stocks using its application.
Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission. The startup offers equity, cryptocurrency, and options trading, as well as cash management accounts. It also provides a stock brokerage platform that democratizes access to the financial markets and aims to make people comfortable storing money and trading stocks using its application.
Nubank is a prominent digital bank revolutionizing finance with its customer-centric approach. It provides a variety of services, including credit cards, personal loans, and digital payments, all accessible through a simple mobile app. Known for transparency, ease of use, and low fees, Nubank aims to empower users with innovative solutions for better financial management.
CoinSwitch breaks down the complexities in Crypto, empowering the everyday Indian to make informed investment decisions on a simple and trusted platform. When we started up, Crypto was a field reserved for specialists. Today, over 20 million users trust CoinSwitch to learn, purchase and invest in Crypto. That makes us India’s largest crypto app. On CoinSwitch, users can invest in Crypto with a few simple taps, either as a one-time purchase or in regular intervals through an SIP. But simplicity is not a substitute for informed decisions. A CoinSwitch user spends 27 minutes on our app—to learn about Crypto and Web3 through our educational content and understand the market sentiments through CRE8, the Crypto Rupee Index. But we are just getting started. CoinSwitch not only plans to double down on making Crypto accessible to everyone but is on track to become the one-stop wealth-tech destination for every Indian.
Hazel
Funding Round in 2021
Hazel is an fintech company formed with partnership with Walmart and Ribbit Capital.
Pinhome is a property transaction and real estate fintech platform making property and home financing more accessible. Pinhome eliminates the challenges in property transactions by building a technology platform to organize property data and information, digitize property transactions, and the home financing process.
CRED is a members-only credit card management and bill payments platform that rewards users every time they pay their credit card bills. The fintech startup operates an app that rewards customers for paying their credit card bills on time and gives them access to a range of additional services such as credit and a premium catalog of products from high-end brands. Customers are offered a range of features which include the ability to better track spending across various credit cards, and get reminders. Cred is backed by investors such as Falcon Edge Capital, Coatue Management, Insight Partners, DST Global, RTP Global, Tiger Global, Greenoaks Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group, and Sofina. It was established in Bengaluru, Karnataka by Kunal Shah in 2017.
Chainalysis designs and develops anti-money laundering software for Bitcoin businesses. Its products include REACTOR, an interactive investigation tool that identifies offenders, visualizes data, and shares results with people and organizations, and API, a transaction-based risk scoring solution that contains the source and destination of funds to measure risk. Chainalysis also offers activity monitoring reports and diligence tools, which allow analysts to estimate criminal revenues and emerging threats. It offers activity monitoring reports, due diligence tools, and cyber threats from the deep web for financial institutions, real-time application programming interface (API), web-based investigation software for due diligence, and verification of customers for bitcoin business, and web-based investigation tools to identify cyber-criminals, identification of bitcoin extortion payments made by victims to criminals, and attribution for cyber threat intelligence industries.
Chipper Cash is a financial services company that features a software application platform that enables free instant cross-border mobile money transfers in Africa as easy as sending a text message. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Chipper Cash is a financial services company that features a software application platform that enables free instant cross-border mobile money transfers in Africa as easy as sending a text message. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Sofía is a health and technology company that offers health and medical insurance services. It provides a platform with health plans for major, minor and preventive medical expenses. Included in the plan are video consultations and one ambulance service per year. The company is offering a warm interaction as every touch point with the brand becomes a customized experience. Sofia was founded in 2018 and is based in Mexico.
Vivid is a leading European financial platform for businesses that seamlessly integrates the management of personal and business finances. Focused on SMEs, Vivid delivers cost-effective, scalable financial solutions with best-in-class pricing, market-leading interest rates on savings and advanced business tools. Founded in 2019 in Berlin by Alexander Emeshevand Artem Iamanov, Vivid has quickly grown into one of Germany’s top financial platforms for SMEs and private accounts. Backed by Greenoaks Capital and DST Global, the company is expanding across Europe setting new standards in how businesses bank.
Tomo is a fintech startup focused on digitizing residential mortgages and improving the home-buying process through its subsidiaries, Tomo Mortgage and Tomo Real Estate. Tomo Real Estate operates as a modern real estate portal, utilizing AI, visual insights, and data to enhance the home-buying experience.
Private Equity Round in 2020
NYDIG is a technology and financial services firm dedicated to Bitcoin for institutions, private clients, and banks. The firm offers asset management, derivatives, financing, custody, and execution services. NYDIG's platform satisfies the highest regulatory, audit, and governance standards.
Kasa Living is a real estate company that focuses on building a global accommodations brand. The company partners with owners of multifamily and boutique hospitality properties, transforming underutilized real estate into professionally managed units that cater to business and leisure travelers. Kasa Living was founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Razorpay is a platform that enables businesses to accept, process, and disburse payments with its product suite. It gives access to all payment modes including credit card, debit card, net banking, UPI and popular wallets including JioMoney, Mobikwik, Airtel Money, FreeCharge, Ola Money, and PayZapp. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.
Alude is a database company that simplifies the process of buying and leasing of real-estate. It has access to the contact details of 332 thousand property owners. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission. The startup offers equity, cryptocurrency, and options trading, as well as cash management accounts. It also provides a stock brokerage platform that democratizes access to the financial markets and aims to make people comfortable storing money and trading stocks using its application.
Groww is an investment platform that offers a new way of investing money with stockbroking and direct mutual funds. The platform provides insights about mutual funds, systematic investment planning, equity-linked savings, and everything from the personal finance world, which helps new investors make investing simple by maintaining a simplified user interface to make investing easy, accessible, transparent, and paperless, enabling users to invest in mutual funds without any hassles. Customers can also invest in gold and US stocks through the Groww platform. The company is also a part of Y Combinator’s winter 2018 batch. Founded in 2017 by Lalit Keshre, Harsh Jain, Neeraj Singh, and Ishan Bansal, the company was launched in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
Habito provides Habito Plus, a homebuying service which brings a buyer’s mortgage application, conveyancing needs and surveys under one solution, and a proprietary broker portal, which gives more than 3,000 external brokers exclusive access to the company’s own buy-to-let mortgage products and Instant Decision technology capabilities. The firm is now looking to bring to market a suite of innovative residential mortgage products for all types of homeowners.
Relay Payments is a venture-backed, fintech company building an electronic payment network in the transportation, logistics, and supply chain industries. The company creates value for its customers and partners by providing direct, instant payments in an industry heavily reliant on cash and checks to conduct day-to-day business. Trusted to process more than 300,000+ transactions every month, Relay is spearheading the modernization of payments, ensuring America continues to run during COVID-19 and well beyond. Relay works with the largest carriers, freight brokers, and 3PLs in the United States ensuring their products quickly get to shelves for consumer consumption.
Hippo Insurance Services offers a different kind of home insurance, built from the ground up to provide a new standard of care and protection for homeowners. Our goal is to make homes safer and better protected so customers spend less time worrying about the burdens of homeownership and more time enjoying their homes and the life within. Harnessing real-time data, smart home technology, and a growing suite of home services, we are creating the first integrated home protection platform. Hippo is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with offices in Austin and Dallas, Texas, and insurance products available to more than 80 percent of U.S. homeowners in 37 states. Hippo Insurance Services is a licensed property casualty insurance agent with products underwritten by various insurance companies.
We are an investment brokerage and wealth management firm that provides access to the best investments in the market. We are the pioneering firm to implement in Brazil the goal-based investment model, utilized by the ultra-high-net-worth individuals overseas. We provide a comprehensive experience tailored to the specific life stage of each investor. Our unique proposition lies in our complete alignment with your objectives, as we operate under a model that safeguards clients against a prevalent market concern: conflicts of interest.
Chainalysis designs and develops anti-money laundering software for Bitcoin businesses. Its products include REACTOR, an interactive investigation tool that identifies offenders, visualizes data, and shares results with people and organizations, and API, a transaction-based risk scoring solution that contains the source and destination of funds to measure risk. Chainalysis also offers activity monitoring reports and diligence tools, which allow analysts to estimate criminal revenues and emerging threats. It offers activity monitoring reports, due diligence tools, and cyber threats from the deep web for financial institutions, real-time application programming interface (API), web-based investigation software for due diligence, and verification of customers for bitcoin business, and web-based investigation tools to identify cyber-criminals, identification of bitcoin extortion payments made by victims to criminals, and attribution for cyber threat intelligence industries.
Upgrade is a neobank that offers credit to mainstream consumers through cards and personal loans, together with free credit monitoring and education tools that help consumers understand and manage their finances. Upgrade Card provides an innovative credit card that brings the low cost and responsible credit of installment lending to millions of retail locations in the U.S., while Upgrade Account is a mobile banking product offered to mainstream consumers.
Coalition is an active insurance company that combines comprehensive insurance and proactive cybersecurity tools to help businesses manage and mitigate cyber risk. Backed by leading global insurers Allianz, Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, Arch Insurance North America, Lloyd’s of London, and Ascot Group, Coalition offers its insurance products in the US and Canada and its security products to organizations globally. Coalition’s Active Risk Platform provides automated security alerts, threat intelligence, expert guidance, and cybersecurity tools to help businesses remain resilient in the face of cyber attacks. Headquartered in San Francisco, Coalition is a distributed company with a global workforce that collaborates both digitally and in-office hubs across the globe.
Parafin is a financial infrastructure company that provides platforms with embedded financial products for their small businesses by abstracting the complexity of capital markets, underwriting, servicing, compliance, and customer support. Small businesses can run and grow themselves despite uncertain economic conditions by powering the financial services of marketplaces and payment processors. In less than three years, Parafin has launched on Amazon, Walmart, DoorDash, TikTok, and more platforms to serve hundreds of thousands of businesses and extended over $8 billion in offers.
Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission. The startup offers equity, cryptocurrency, and options trading, as well as cash management accounts. It also provides a stock brokerage platform that democratizes access to the financial markets and aims to make people comfortable storing money and trading stocks using its application.
Fenbeitong is the enterprise consumption platform for full process control. Through intelligent control rules and reminding measures, Debeitong helps enterprises to save a lot of money during travel, car use, procurement and other public consumption. Through the credit monthly payment and unified invoice consumption mode, Debeitong helps employees to spare money. , free of charge, no reimbursement, greatly improve the efficiency of business operations.
BharatPe is an Indian fintech company that primarily focuses on providing financial services to small and medium-sized merchants. It facilitates digital payments through the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and Point of Sale (POS) devices. Additionally, BharatPe offers various services such as business loans and other financial products to empower merchants in managing their finances.
Revolut is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange. Revolut started as a platform for providing prepaid debit cards and currency exchange but has since expanded its services to include cryptocurrency trading, stock trading, insurance, and various other financial products. It operates in numerous countries worldwide and is known for its mobile app, which allows users to manage their finances, make payments, and track spending.
Lightning Labs is building the next generation of decentralized, resilient financial infrastructure. We believe systems based on cryptography, blockchains, and smart contracts will enhance financial cooperation around the world in unprecedented ways at scales both large and small. We have developed Lightning Network Daemon (lnd) the most advanced and most developer-friendly implementation of the Lightning Network protocol. Along with Neutrino, an open platform that enables users with mobile devices to conduct blockchain and Lightning Network transactions quickly and easily. We’re hiring. See our open positions: http://lightning.engineering/careers.html Get involved: http://dev.lightning.community/
axio is an online platform that provides working capital finance to SMEs.