Top Financial Services Startups in 2027

Astra is a next-generation financial services company focused on providing advanced payment technology for financial institutions, fintech startups, and enterprises. The company’s full-stack payments platform enables its customers to offer real-time, programmatic transfers between their users’ accounts.

Formic is focused on unlocking robotic automation in small to mid-sized American manufacturers. Our innovative “robots-as-a-service” model combines financial innovation with a firm understanding of robotics to enable manufacturers to deploy and scale automation quickly and with minimal risk. Our mission is to make automation easy and accessible, with our unique "pay for uptime only" model, for as low as $8/hr. Every factory should have access to unlimited “labor” through automation without the traditional barriers to entry.

Burst is building banking infrastructure to help financial institutions modernize. We combine stunning UI/UX with reliable architecture to enable financial institutions to launch digital and mobile experiences for their customers. You’ll be joining an all-star team with engineering, product, and growth experience from Stripe, Google, and Amazon. We’re looking for a talented Founding Frontend Engineer to help us build our initial product. We’re bringing a new perspective to the decades-old financial world, and we’d love to have you along for the ride!

Utilizing both public and private data, Sigma Ratings dynamically tracks company-level non-credit risks across multiple jurisdictions. In generating its scores and ratings, Sigma is solving a number of hard technology problems related to emerging market data collection, analysis and display that are valuable to global financial institutions, investors and governments.

For the everyday investor aspiring to build financial literacy and lasting wealth, DiversyFund provides a complete suite of investment knowledge tools and high quality investment products to reach their financial goals. Utilizing the power of crowdfunding and cutting-edge technology, DiversyFund gives all investors the opportunity to build wealth, while diversifying their portfolio all from our online platform. Investors can be confident knowing every opportunity offered by DiversyFund’s team of investment experts is hand selected. With industry-leading transparency, investors receive timely updates on current investments so they’re never left in the dark. DiversyFund serves all Americans who deserve the opportunity to become financially literate and financially secure - providing them the platform and tools to take the right steps to grow their wealth. Over 30,000 people have signed up, investing over $100 million with DiversyFund. To date, DiversyFund investors earn 9-18% and have not lost a single dollar of principal.

Donorbox is a leading fundraising platform and donor management system for nonprofit organizations. Our mission is to positively impact the world by helping nonprofits become highly effective at raising donations and managing their supporter base. We serve more than 50,000 global organizations and process over $700 million dollars annually. Donorbox was founded in San Francisco in 2014. We are a small, motivated company that is profitable and bootstrapped with a healthy run-rate. Our diverse, growing team has 55 team members in 8 states and 14 countries. Learn more about our mission here: donorbox.org/about-us.

EquityZen, a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley, is a leading marketplace for pre-IPO investments, connecting shareholders of private companies with accredited investors. Through its category-leading technology and innovative approach, EquityZen delivers data-driven insights and tools that empower its 800,000 users to navigate the private markets with confidence. Having completed more than 51,000 private placements in nearly 500 private companies, EquityZen is on a mission to deliver “Private Markets for the Public.”

Hometap is a smart new loan alternative for tapping into home equity without taking on debt. Homeowners receive debt-free cash by selling a percentage of the equity in their homes to Hometap. They can use the cash for anything, from paying off credit-card debt to starting a business to buying a second home. When the home sells or the homeowner settles the investment, Hometap is paid out an agreed-upon percentage of the sale price or current appraised value. Learn more at hometap.com.

We eliminate tens of thousands in upfront data expenses, while giving you the instant flexibility to pick up real-time full exchange feeds or terabytes of historical data when you need it. Whether you're a Fortune 500 bank or a single-person startup, we scale with your budget and needs to deliver the same cutting edge performance and data integrity. For more info, visit databento.com

We are SigFig. We empower everyone to achieve their life goals and ambitions with intuitive and customer-centric financial solutions. It takes extraordinary people to disrupt decades of legacy financial practices to reimagine solutions to serve customers at scale. SigFig's blue chip clients in the United States and Canada provide almost $4 billion of assets under management to the platform. SigFig treasures innovation and values beautiful design and simplicity. Our team thrives on the opportunities created by technology. We are a company that creates transparency and acts in the best interest of investors everywhere.