Top Finance Technology Startups in 2024

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We are a group of entrepreneurs building digital platforms to empower the middle class of Latin America. We have a venture studio model, with ventures designed in-house using a proprietary business design methodology, then founding teams are recruited to lead them. Polymath remains deeply involved in our companies throughout their life cycles, providing strategy, operations & design-thinking methodologies support. Operating since 2012 and with offices in Bogota and Mexico City, Polymath has launched 9 ventures and raised US$30M+ of equity and debt financing across the group. We have raised three venture studio investment vehicles, achieving an unrealized IRR of 37%. Ventures examples: Elenas - Elenas is building the first social selling platform for consumer products in LATAM.The unique digital direct sales model leverages the power of personal relationships and the scalability of e-commerce in order to improve income opportunities for millions of women across LATAM.(elenas.co) Nido - Nido is a digital platform to serve tenant’s growing demand for affordable room rentals. Aflore - Aflore creates a new channel to issue credit to the under-banked middle class (aflore.co) Autolab - Autolab is an auto repair platform that uses technology to integrate and solve the deep pain points of car owners, mechanics, and the parts supply chain, enabling a trustworthy and affordable experience for the end-customer (autolab.com.co)

MPOWER lends to highly-employable domestic & international students at top US campuses who are excluded from traditional banking options. MPOWER builds on best practices set by LendingClub, SoFi, CommonBond, Earnest, Upstart, and others in the mainstream refinancing market, and applies these insights to an unaddressed segment of the population: high-potential international and domestic students at top universities. This segment requires capabilities that are unique to MPOWER: an innovative credit model, university partnerships, and global servicing. Loans are for 10-years at a fixed-rate, and range between $2,000 and $25,000. MPOWER disburses payments directly to the university to cover tuition or university-sponsored housing, meal plans, or health insurance. The loan comes with free personal finance education courses, credit-building tools, and a job placement service for the students.

Gr4vy is a cloud payments company that takes the complexity out of running your own payments infrastructure by doing it for you. We can deploy services on our cloud across the globe, deploying on the edge close to your customers. We can even allow you to host our services on your own networks. Centralized reporting, monitoring, and management mean all parts of your business will benefit from a single streamlined system, saving you time and money.

Our software helps business owners save on taxes with two core products: Corvee Tax Planning – Finds ways to cut down on taxes (Demo at corvee.com). Instead Implementation & Preparation – Simplifies tax rules for small businesses (Live at instead.com). Note: We are in process of rebranding from Corvee to Instead.com. The main product you will be working on will be at instead.com

Today, there are 60m+ people engaged in “gig work” who face unique challenges as a business of one. While the flexibility of this work has led to new opportunities for many, it has also created challenges around earnings certainty and professional stability. Solo is solving these problems by building the platform for gig workers to optimize their time, move seamlessly between more jobs and access a full suite of services tailored for their work.

Moni is a suite of financial products for Mobile money agents powered by social trust. With us, your collateral are the people around you - your community; the people that see you, the people that know you.

Co-founded in 2007 by two leading scientists, The Voleon Group combines an academic approach to research with an emphasis on scalability and risk management to deliver cutting-edge technology at the forefront of the finance industry. Many of our leaders and employees hold doctorates in statistics, computer science, and mathematics, among other quantitative disciplines. We are committed to exemplary performance in all aspects of our research and operations, while maintaining a culture of intellectual curiosity and flexibility. Voleon’s CEO holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford and previously founded and led a successful technology startup. Our Chief Investment Officer/Head of Research is a Statistics faculty member at UC Berkeley, where he earned his Ph.D. At Voleon, we approach investment management through the prism of machine learning, in which flexible statistical models are applied to the problem of financial prediction. Rather than having humans look at individual events within the marketplace, machine learning employs statistical algorithms capable of detecting persistent effects across large swaths of data. Besides financial markets, there is a wide array of other real-life applications for machine learning, from medical diagnosis to weather prediction.

At River, we are committed to building financial solutions that power a transparent and efficient global economic system made possible by Bitcoin. We have built leading Bitcoin brokerage, mining, and custody products to keep our clients ahead of the curve. We aim to bring premier Bitcoin solutions that offer our clients a full array of financial services.

Powerloom Protocol is a composable data network primarily aimed at serving the onchain data needs of smart contract-based applications within DeFi, GameFi, NFTs, and more. We incentivize participating peers to reach a consensus on state transitions and event emissions observations across many smart contracts. By utilizing data compositions on smaller, consensus-reached data units, Powerloom stands as a peer-validated and accurate information source, empowering rich data applications like dashboards, bots, aggregators, and insights trackers.