Top Finance Startups in 2026

We offer analytic platforms, data feeds and research that integrates business intelligence and industry data, research and news into tools that help our clients make critical business decisions. We serve all segments within the financial markets - Capital Markets, Banks and Insurance and Non-Financial Corporates.

In general, founding CEOs perform better than professional CEOs over the long term, and a venture capital firm that enables founding CEOs to succeed would help build the best companies and yield superior investment returns.

Bullpen Capital invests in post-seed companies that have achieved product-market fit, but have not yet proven sufficient market scalability to raise a major VC round.  We invest in companies that have an operational plan to hit big milestones within a 12-month period, and we work closely with the companies in our portfolio to develop this early traction into large, sustainable businesses. Seed financing is now more of a process than an event, with multiple rounds of investment layered into the early stages of startup companies.  The "post-seed" stage is often the inflection point of value, the last lean money in before a “super-sized” A round.  Bullpen’s strategy aims to provide leverage for founding teams, who can minimize dilution to maintain ownership and control of their companies, while retaining the option of choosing either a quick acquisition or raising major growth capital to go for a big win.   

NYMBUS, the core banking modernization company, enables financial institutions to digitally transform their businesses. NYMBUS SmartCore is the most modern, advanced core platform to improve operational efficiency, differentiate service offerings, and redefine the holistic customer experience. The customer-centric platform unifies all the required banking functions into one system, enabling a multi-channel customer experience, while automating and simplifying back-end processes and workflows. NYMBUS was born in the digital age, for the digital age. NYMBUS SmartCore, built with an open architecture and open APIs for easy integration with what matters most to consumers, while providing the highest levels of security and compliance with the latest industry standards.

Fortress Investment Group LLC was founded in 1998 with the goal of creating a new kind of investment firm. Headquartered in New York, Fortress currently employs over 900 people with a variety of industry-specific expertise. Innovation has been key since its inception and the firm has continued to maintain a place at the very forefront of new strategies in finance, acquisitions, ownership and, most currently, technology.

Liscio is a next-generation client-collaboration tool for accounting firms. We help firms communicate securely with clients, collect documents and information, manage requests and signatures, deliver tax returns, and serve their clients more effectively. We work at the edge of what is possible, redefining how product, engineering and AI collaborate to deliver value.

Vertalo is a global leader and pioneer in the transformation of private capital markets. Our digital asset data management platform is licensed by Broker-Dealers, Capital Advisors, RIAs, Real Estate Funds, and a variety of interesting companies that want to modernize the way they manage investor onboarding, investor relations, cap tables, and secondary liquidity.

100 million Americans that lack access to fair credit. We have shown that we can underwrite 40% of people that are shut out of the financial system, and provide an onramp where all others have failed.

Hummingbird is a platform for managing anti-money laundering (AML) operations. Compliance professionals use Hummingbird to collect case information, conduct investigations, and report on unusual or suspicious behaviors. The platform dramatically reduces paperwork and improves efficiency, enabling AML investigators to refocus on fighting financial crime. Hummingbird’s founding team brings together product and regulatory experience from organizations like Square, IDEO, the Department of the Treasury, and the OCC. Hummingbird is using data and design to modernize regulatory compliance in finance.

Revelio Labs provides an in-depth view of the workforces of companies around the world. The company leverages advancements in AI technologies to turn hundreds of millions of online profiles, resumes, and job postings into clear insights. Its clients include: corporate strategists, HR, VCs, and investors.