Top Finance Startups in 2026

Property management in 2021 is still a collection of poorly integrated, often barely usable, point solutions. This creates huge inefficiencies for property managers and indirectly inflates costs for owners and ultimately tenants, often impacting the quality of service they receive in their home. Pure aims to reset all of that, with a user-focused property management platform enabling property managers to effectively apply their time where it's needed, while reducing manual steps in the day-to-day. For tenants, this means a responsive property team that's accessible and easy to reach. They will get a modern payment experience, maintenance issue resolution that works on time and on their schedule; ultimately a better managed home. Owners can expect efficient, timely, and accurate payments, notifications when their authorization is needed (for maintenance or the likes), insights into the performance of their assets, and an overall enhanced level of service.

Augment is the first online marketplace for equity in private companies. Startups are staying private for an average of 12 years before an IPO -- both employees and early investors need liquidity before then. Augment transparently aggregates demand and supply for stock sales, enables negotiation, and reduces the friction for executing a trade. We are bringing transparency and efficiency to an opaque and fragmented market.

Shelf provides an app where you can create groups with your close one to pool the money together and pay directly from the groups for your shared expenses. You can use it with friends, family, flatmates, and colleagues. Shelf has been founded by IIT Roorkee alumni and is backed by Y Combinator, the world's largest startup accelerator, which has backed companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Stripe, Razorpay, Meesho, Groww, Zepto, Fampay and many superb performing startups.

Feedzai is AI. We’re coding the future of commerce with a leading platform powered by artificial intelligence and big data. Founded and developed by data scientists and aerospace engineers, Feedzai has one critical mission: make commerce safe. The world’s largest banks, payment providers and retailers use Feedzai’s machine learning technology to manage risks associated with banking and shopping, whether it’s in person, online or via mobile devices.

Avant is changing the way consumers borrow money. Utilizing advanced algorithms and machine-learning capabilities, we offer a unique and highly customized approach to the personal loan process. The combination of technology, analytics, and customer service capabilities allows Avant to provide access to a simple process for personal loans and credit card products to borrowers, all entirely online.

We’re working to change the way wealth is created. And, we’ve been growing like crazy. Join us on this amazing journey. YieldStreet connects investors to opportunities in alternative asset classes like real estate and litigation finance. YieldStreet was created because our founders were frustrated by the lack of options regular investors had to participate in asset backed investment opportunities that also had low correlation to the stock market. We believe top notch technology and data can help us build the world’s most robust alternative investment platform and create financial independence for all.

We’re an experienced team of builders who’ve founded startups and worked with some of the largest financial institutions and companies in the world. We’re backed by powerhouse advisors, as well as Deciens, QED (known for Capital One, Credit Karma, SoFi, NuBank, Remitly, Avant, etc.), Village Global (backed by Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and more), and more.

Finix is the smartest way for businesses to own, manage and monetize payments. Created by payments experts from First Data, PayPal, and Worldpay, Finix is trusted by companies like Lightspeed POS Inc. and Clubessential. to build and scale their payments infrastructure. Headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Cincinnati, Ohio, Finix is a privately held company funded by Bain Capital Ventures, Homebrew, Insight Partners, Aspect Ventures, Visa, Precursor Ventures, Class 5 Global, and Village Capital.

WE'RE HIRING! Please see our Careers page for more details: careers.theguarantors.com TheGuarantors is a FinTech company dedicated to creating winning opportunities for the real estate ecosystem. This includes everyone from the full range of residential and commercial real estate professionals to residents and corporate tenants. We are rethinking industry inefficiencies and market needs to create innovative insurance products and financial solutions that allow for growth and protect long-term prosperity. The result is that we have achieved the seemingly unachievable -- a solution where everybody wins. This is not real estate finance as it’s always been, but where it needs to be.

Pontera empowers advisors to see, trade, and manage client assets in 401k, 403b, 529, and other held away accounts. This empowers advisors to offer comprehensive, holistic services to their end clients, and enables end-clients to rest assured that the entirety of their portfolios are purposely directed. Pontera clients range from Fortune 100 financial services firms and large independent broker dealers, to small independent RIA’s and advisory firms. We recently raised a large round of capital from some of the world's top VCs and are aggressively growing our team.