Fintech startups.

auxmoney

Series D

auxmoney is a leading digital lending platform for consumer credit in Europe, headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany. Through proprietary AI-powered risk models and fully digital processes, it provides personal loans (€1,000–€50,000) to individuals, students, and self-employed borrowers who may not qualify at traditional banks, while connecting them with private and institutional investors. The platform promotes financial inclusion by expanding access to affordable credit.

Taekus

Seed

Taekus is a San Francisco-based fintech company offering premium travel rewards credit card products that automatically maximize points for travelers, starting with airline tickets. Its banking services are provided in partnership with Stearns Bank, N.A., and it targets consumers who want to get more value from their credit card rewards without navigating complex fine print.

Ivy

Series A

Ivy (getivy.io) is a global Open Banking fintech providing a single API for instant bank payments, enabling businesses to accept and send real-time bank transactions and open borderless accounts without cards, wallets, or intermediaries. Its platform connects to over 500 million consumer bank accounts across 50+ countries, reducing transaction costs for merchant clients. Ivy makes local instant payment schemes interoperable through stablecoins, powering global transactions at internet speed.

Dragonfly

Pre-seed

Dragonfly (formerly Dragonfly Capital Partners) is a leading crypto-focused venture investment fund founded in 2018. It backs teams building generational companies and products across protocols, exchanges, apps, and blockchain infrastructure at various stages. The firm operates through three strategies: Dragonfly Ventures, Dragonfly Liquid, and MetaStable.

Algorand

Series A

Algorand is a high-performance, Layer-1 proof-of-stake blockchain platform founded by Turing Award-winning MIT cryptographer Silvio Micali. It provides scalable, secure, and decentralized infrastructure for DeFi, real-world asset tokenization, digital payments, and smart contracts, targeting enterprises, financial institutions, and developers. The platform uses a unique Pure Proof of Stake (PPoS) consensus mechanism capable of processing thousands of transactions per second with instant finality.

Kickstarter

Growth

Kickstarter, PBC is an American public benefit corporation that operates a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity. It enables artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, and other creators to raise funds for projects spanning film, music, art, games, technology, and more via an all-or-nothing pledge model. The company's stated mission is to "help bring creative projects to life."

C2FO

Series D

C2FO is a financial technology company operating the world's on-demand working capital platform, providing fast, flexible, and equitable access to low-cost capital to businesses worldwide. Using its patented Name Your Rate® technology, it enables suppliers to get paid sooner by large enterprises — unlocking capital tied up in accounts receivable without loans or paperwork. It serves businesses of all sizes globally and has delivered hundreds of billions in funding around the world.

tapi

Series A

Tapi is a Buenos Aires-based fintech startup that provides an API-first payment infrastructure for banks and fintechs across Latin America. Its unified API enables recurring bill payments, mobile top-ups, cash in/out, and digital gift cards across Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. The platform serves major consumer platforms such as Mercado Pago and allows businesses to process payments across multiple countries through a single integration.

Alt

Growth

Alt is an alternative asset platform founded in 2020 that enables users to buy, sell, store, and invest in authenticated sports cards and other collectibles, similar to how one would trade stocks. The platform provides real-time portfolio tracking, pricing data, and liquidity tools, with the mission of increasing transparency and liquidity in alternative asset markets.

Brightside

Growth

Brightside is an employer-based financial care platform that combines tech-powered financial assistants, a proprietary rules engine, and innovative financial products to improve the financial health of working families living paycheck to paycheck. The platform is sold to employers as an employee benefit, helping workers manage debt, savings, credit, and emergencies at no cost to employees. It targets companies with front-line workers, driving ROI through improved productivity, retention, and reduced healthcare costs.

Mercantile

Series A

Mercantile (legal name: Mercantile Financial Technologies, Inc.) is a fintech company that builds industry-specific, branded business credit cards for small businesses. It partners with professional associations and business software systems to offer SMB customers co-branded cards with group purchasing power and industry-relevant rewards. The company's mission is to strengthen the independence of small businesses so they can better compete against larger competitors.

EvolutionIQ

Growth

EvolutionIQ pioneered AI-driven claims guidance technology in 2019, building a platform that uses explainable AI to guide insurance claims professionals to their highest-impact actions across disability, workers' compensation, and general liability lines. Its SaaS platform combines historical claims data, unstructured claimant data, and third-party information to deliver actionable next-best-action recommendations, helping carriers improve outcomes, reduce costs, and support faster claimant recoveries. In December 2024, EvolutionIQ was acquired by CCC Intelligent Solutions for approximately $730M.

Kiavi

Growth

Kiavi (formerly LendingHome) is a tech-enabled private lender to residential real estate investors (REIs) in the United States. The company harnesses data and AI to offer bridge loans, fix-and-flip/rehab loans, rental loans, and new construction financing through a fast, transparent online platform. With over $27 billion in funded loans across 45+ states, Kiavi helps REIs revitalize aged U.S. housing stock by providing fast, reliable capital to scale their businesses.

Perpay

Series A

Perpay is a Philadelphia-based fintech company that offers an e-commerce marketplace and credit card enabling credit-challenged consumers to make purchases and pay over time via automatic payroll deductions, interest-free. The platform reports payment history to all three major credit bureaus, helping members build credit while shopping from 1,000+ top brands.

Upgrade

Growth

Upgrade is an American neobank founded in 2016 that offers affordable and responsible consumer credit and banking products, including personal loans, rewards credit cards, home improvement loans, auto refinancing, and checking/savings accounts. It serves mainstream consumers seeking to improve their financial health through accessible credit and transparent pricing, and has helped over 7.8 million customers access more than $47 billion in consumer credit.

Siteline

Series A

Siteline is a purpose-built billing and payment management software platform for commercial trade contractors (subcontractors). Its platform enables contractors to compile and submit payment applications, manage lien waivers and compliance, and integrate with accounting systems and general contractor payment portals — helping them get paid faster and reduce manual billing workflows.

SingleKey

Seed

SingleKey is a Toronto-based proptech SaaS platform that helps landlords and property managers take the risk out of renting through tenant screening reports, rent collection, and a Rent Guarantee program. It serves individual homeowners and large property managers across Canada, offering tools including credit and background checks, digital lease agreements, and income protection against tenant default.

Pinwheel

Growth

Pinwheel is a market-leading payroll data connectivity platform providing APIs that enable banks, credit unions, and fintechs to offer direct deposit switching, income and employment verification, and earned wage access. It connects to over 1,600 payroll platforms covering approximately 80% of U.S. workers, and is the only provider offering FCRA-compliant income and employment data as a Consumer Reporting Agency (CRA).

FundersClub

Growth

FundersClub is the world's first online venture capital platform, founded in 2012, that allows accredited investors to become equity holders in managed venture funds which then invest in pre-screened private startups. It focuses on seed and early-stage technology companies, offering investors access to highly vetted startups while providing funded companies with capital, advice, and professional networks through a traditional VC fund format.

Gauntlet

Growth

Gauntlet is a quantitative risk management and yield optimization firm for decentralized finance (DeFi), serving capital allocators, financial institutions, and DAOs. The company uses data analysis, simulation modeling, and economic research to evaluate protocol risks, optimize financial parameters, and curate institutional-grade on-chain vaults. It has integrated with over 150 fintechs and institutions and curates over $1.5 billion in supplied assets across its vaults.

Numerai

Growth

Numerai is a crowd-sourced, AI-run hedge fund that transforms and regularizes financial data into machine learning problems for a global network of data scientists. Participants submit ML models to predict stock market performance and can stake the platform's native cryptocurrency, Numeraire (NMR), on their predictions. The most accurate models are synthesized into a collective AI that controls Numerai's long/short global equity strategy.

Central

Acquired

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RenoFi

Series A

RenoFi (Renovation Finance LLC) is a fintech company that operates an AI-enabled online marketplace for home renovation financing, connecting homeowners with partner lenders for HELOC and home equity loan products. Its core innovation uses a home's After-Renovation Value (ARV) rather than its current value to unlock greater borrowing power without requiring mortgage refinancing. RenoFi is not itself a lender but partners with credit unions and lenders nationwide to serve homeowners across 48 states.

Tellus

Seed

Tellus (Tellus App, Inc.) is an American real estate technology and financial technology company founded in 2016. It operates a smart savings platform powered by real estate, offering high-yield cash accounts and passive income products to consumers. The app also provides property management tools for landlords, including rent collection, tenant screening, listings management, and maintenance tracking.