Top Finance Startups in 2026

NetLaw's primary product is its online DIY estate planning platform. The company also supports a CRM-type product for financial services advisors to enable them to more effectively market themselves and our estate planning product. Furthermore, the company maintains a product for attorneys that includes a turnkey estate planning drafting system targeted at empowering them to know their cost in creating a given set of documents and therefore move to fixed-fee pricing and away from open-- ended hourly engagements. NetLaw also has two native apps on the Google and Apple stores and patent-pending technology under development.

Luminary's technology platform enables wealth advisors to deliver generational gift and philanthropic giving solutions at scale. More than $100 billion in family and philanthropic giving capacity is created each year. But flaws in the current process impose over a billion in annual costs in order to access it. We are building the first product for wealth managers to automate the complex, and inefficient estate planning process.

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CB Insights fuses machine learning, algorithms, data and visualizations together to help large enterprises ask, answer and articulate compelling answers to difficult questions - about growth, about competition and about the markets and technologies of the future. Our machine learning technology mines vast numbers of unstructured documents such as patents, earnings calls, news articles, company websites, regulatory filings, social media and more to derive insights into the future of the global economy.

Synonym is a financing and development platform for essential biomanufacturing infrastructure - we’re building production capacity for synthetic biology companies and creating a new asset class for investors. We provide synbio companies with flexible capacity for microbial fermentation.  We build new biomanufacturing facilities, offering synbio companies access to dedicated, scalable capacity for minimal upfront capital investment. We accelerate project timelines and minimize internal complexity by handling facility development activities, from site selection through commissioning. We provide capital markets partners with curated access to biomanufacturing infrastructure investments, an emerging asset class and we manage these investments on behalf of investors, with an emphasis on risk management and maximizing returns.

CAIS is the leading open-architecture financial product platform offering the independent wealth management channel access to a menu of alternative investment funds and capital markets offerings. We are a FinTech, B2B organization that is leveling the playing field by providing research, diligence, access, and execution of complex financial products.

Public.com is an investing app that makes the stock market social. By building a transparent community of investors and offering fractional shares of thousands of publicly-traded companies, we’re on a mission to make the public markets work for everyone. With interest in the stock market surging among a new generation of investors, our community is growing rapidly, and we recently reached our 1MM member milestone just 18 months after launching. To support our ambitious goals, our team is growing and we’re looking for sharp, enthusiastic people who believe in our mission to fundamentally change the way people invest. We announced our Series D funding round of $220 million in Feb. 2021, just two months after our Series C round. Our investors include Accel, Greycroft (the original investors in Venmo) and Lakestar as well as Will Smith (Dreamers VC), Tony Hawk, The Chainsmokers’ Mantis VC; NFL star J.J. Watt, NYU Stern professor and entrepreneur Scott Galloway, business executive Dick Parsons, Business Class founder Sophia Amoruso, and Shari Redstone’s Advancit Capital.

SentiLink provides innovative identity and risk solutions, empowering institutions and individuals to transaction with confidence. We’re building the future of identity verification in the United States replacing a clunky, ineffective, and expensive status quo with solutions that are 10x faster, smarter, and more accurate. We’ve seen tremendous traction and are growing extremely quickly. Our real-time APIs have helped verify hundreds of millions of identities, starting with financial services and rapidly expanding into new markets. SentiLink is backed by world-class investors including Craft Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, NYCA, and Max Levchin. We’ve earned recognition from TechCrunch, CNBC, Bloomberg, Forbes, Business Insider, PYMNTS, American Banker, LendIt, and have been named to the Forbes Fintech 50 list every year since 2023. Last but not least, we’ve even made history - we were the first company to go live with the eCBSV and testified before the United States House of Representatives on the future of identity. SentiLink supports a variety of ways to work, ranging from fully remote to in-office. We operate as a digital-first company with strong collaboration across the U.S. and India. We maintain physical offices in Austin, San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Chicago in the U.S., and in Gurugram (Delhi) and Bengaluru in India. If you’re located near one of these offices, we would love for you to spend time in the office regularly. Some roles are hybrid or in-office by design. For example, our engineering team in India works primarily from our Gurugram office.

We help manufactured home community owners finance homes. We work with the home-owner and the community owner to provide a fantastic journey from picking out a home to getting the keys!

Wealthfront is a nextgen banking service. We help you manage your money for both your short-term and long-term goals by providing a cash account with a top-of-market APY, best-in-class automated investment management, and free financial advice, anytime you want it. We entered into the banking space in a big way this year with the launch of our cash account that offers an interest rate 23x greater than the national average. We’ve been overwhelmed by the response and have grown nearly 100% this year already to manage nearly $20 billion in total client assets. Our ultimate vision is to optimize and automate all of our clients’ finances and build what we call Self-Driving Money™️. We want clients to be able to automatically deposit their paycheck into their Wealthfront account, and let us take care of the rest — paying their bills, topping off their emergency fund or 401(k), and investing the rest based on their specific goals and lifestyle.