Top Finance Startups in 2026

Riskalyze is an all-in-one proposal system, business development system and risk management system for investment advisors. Our unique and patented core technology is built on the academic framework that won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2002. By empowering people to align their investments with their risk tolerance, we can end the disastrous "buy high and sell low" cycle that has caused average investors to miss out on three quarters of market returns over the last 20 years. Riskalyze advisors... — Win more clients by turning a prospect's statement into an amazing sales tool — Fulfill the "client-specific suitability" compliance obligation nobody else is following — Keep clients happy, engaged and retained by winning the expectations game There's a reason that Fast Company Magazine named Riskalyze as one of the World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Finance. This company has the team, technology and traction to reinvent how the world invests its money.

IPC® offers financial services firms comprehensive advantages when it comes to mission-critical, highly reliable trading communications technology and network services. For all the reasons that follow, more firms — large, mid-sized and small — choose IPC systems and network services.

Financeit is one of North America's leading Home Improvement Point Of Sale financing platforms. It works with contractors to offer customers flexible payment plans for large purchases. By giving customers more ways to pay, they can increase close rates and average transaction size, and grow their business. Financeit provides you and your customers with a user-friendly experience based on fairness and transparency. We don’t have hidden fees or backdated interest charges, and our interest rates are lower than most credit cards. Since launching in 2011, Financeit has signed up over 7000 home improvement, retail and vehicle merchants who have processed billions in loans in Canada the United States.

Persado’s cognitive content platform is a smart system that combines natural language processing and machine learning technologies to machine generate the precise words, phrases and images that can inspire any given audience to act, every time. Persado’s cognitive content outperforms man-made messages 100%* of the time.

Hard work and ambition are integral to the economic fabric. But for too long, full-time employment has been valued over other kinds of work. Steady changes that, with an income-building platform for people building self-directed careers in the new economy. We’re creating a model that employers, media, and financial services firms can use to better understand the patterns and opportunities that can be found in this dynamic, growing segment.

We believe people want to be in control, and to make their own decisions. We use data and design to make buying life insurance easy, fast, and secure. We make it modern and affordable by eliminating expensive branches and armies of commissioned insurance agents. We are a focused team of creative, hard-working, and compassionate people, backed by top venture capital firms. Fabric’s co-founders Adam Erlebacher and Steven Surgnier most recently helped build Simple. Come join us in Brooklyn and remake an industry.

Hello Alice is a free, multichannel platform that helps businesses launch and grow. With a community of nearly 600,000 business owners in all 50 states and across the globe, Hello Alice is building the largest network of owners in the country while tracking data and trends to increase the success rate for entrepreneurs. Our partners include enterprise business services, government agencies, and institutions looking to serve small- and medium-business owners to ensure increased revenues and promote scale. A Latina owned company, founded by Carolyn Rodz and Elizabeth Gore, we believe in business for all by providing access to all owners including women, people of color, veterans, and everyone with an entrepreneurial spirit. To learn more, visit helloalice.com, as well as Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook.

Benzinga's mission is to be a part of every investment decision made - from an individual investor’s first brokerage account to global fund managers. As a tech-enabled financial media platform, Benzinga content is now read by more than 50M people every month, but we are not satisfied. That's where you come in! Benzinga has grown by over 250% the last 2 years, more than doubled the size of its team & recently announced majority-ownership by Beringer Capital, a private equity firm specializing in the rapidly evolving media, marketing services, commerce, data and technology sectors. Our team of more than 100 is leveling the playing field for individual investors and is in the midst of a period of significant growth across editorial, analytics and events operations.

Lazarus Forms is a developer-friendly API that uses A.I. to extract key-value pairs as JSONs from any fax, form, or PDF. Handwriting compatible, and requiring no training, the Forms tool automates data entry tasks and enriches old databases, saving you time and effort.

Custodia Bank™ intends to provide a full suite of banking and financial services tailored to business customers looking for enhanced regulatory clarity and minimized transactional risk as they traverse the digital asset frontier.