Top Finance Startups in 2026

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.

We are building a non-custodial crypto trading platform: fast, reliable, and with deep liquidity across thousands of financial instruments.

At CaseWare, we develop cutting-edge software solutions for accounting firms, corporations and governments. We continually work to produce a stream of successful product improvements, innovations, adaptations, and extensions that will change the future of audit, financial reporting and data analytics. Our CaseWare Working Papers, IDEA, and Cloud platforms are using artificial intelligence and machine learning to change the way we think about and work with data. The result: measurable returns on efficiency, quality, and value for firms and their clients. Leading the industry of over 30 years, more than 500,000 users in 130 countries and 16 languages use CaseWare Solutions. caseware.com

Rising Ahead is building an emerging technologies-led data analytics platform, Athena. Athena is an enterprise AI agent that actively learns and timely prompts, notifies, and assists decision makers as their smart, intelligent, decision agent. Athena is the only Analytics-as-a-Service Platform that informs business intelligence and insights, and makes business decisions, while living in enterprise IT environment, securing, and protecting your data. State-of-the-art and personalized analytics, powered by AI, in the hands of mid-market business users to accelerate growth and maximize RoI in half the time and at one-third the cost. Athena inspires enterprise business in 3 ways: 1. Over 15% growth in revenues with market strategies that help adapt to competition and fast evolving customer behaviors ~ to better engage, serve, and retain customers. 2. Over 30% optimization in cost of doing business, and over 50% efficiency in operations, driving up business performance and productivity; and 3. Over 70% productivity in Enterprise Data Management at nearly half the cost.

Giggso is an integrated platform to manage collaboration and business apps, with enterprise-wide search, engagement incentives, and actionable insights. Giggso is the first platform to build operational efficiency by helping organizations get increased visibility and accountability from team engagement. WIth Secure, on-prem/private cloud deployment, Giggso adds a unique value to actionable insights from their social collaboration. Giggso's configurable platform can be integrated with any enterprise and productivity product available; also enables build your own with our open API; Jira to Outlook.. The enterprise social intelligence grid is built with a reward and recognition system to spur employees not only to communicate but also to build their reputation within the organization. Giggso helps make businesses smarter by democratizing collaboration.

Blue Ink Digital provides realtime and exclusive leads directly to out customers so they can grow their business faster. Our clients range from small roof installers to nationwide solar panel providers. We take pride in leveraging technology to ensure that we can deliver the highest quality product to our clients.

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